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in thread A 'strange' character("^M") of contrasting color appearing unexpededly at the end of lines of a unix file. How can it be removed?

or even use the ":crlf" PerlIO layer to automatically translate \r\n <—> \n.

On Windows, the layer is active by default, which is why the "^M problem" does not occur. But there's nothing that would keep you from using it on Unix, too, in case you need to handle Windows-style files.

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