I've been tasked to create a quick little Perl script to monitor the output from a Cisco router's serial port and to print it out to STDOUT. I want to have the output be flushed to STDOUT at every newline. I discovered today Cisco (at least for IOS v12.4) uses CRLF (\x0A \x0D) for their newlines. I thought I could just have my code say: 

$objPort = new Win32::SerialPort...;
$objPort->are_match("\n", "\r\n");
$foo = $objPort->lookfor;

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I ran the script during the router's bootup; it only picked up 4 lines or so while skipping the rest of the others. I've searched online but most of the stuff was about stripping newlines from serial streams. Has anyone else tried this before? Thx for your attention.

Edit: g0n - code tags

In reply to Need help with Win32::SerialPort by GoTerpsGo

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