Hi I am a beginner to perl. I am so sorry about the terrible formatting earlier. I am trying to read from a file, for some fields. The code is as follows: ******************************************************************************** 
use strict;
use warnings;

use FileHandle;
use Cwd 'abs_path';

#====================== main() ========================
my $FH = new FileHandle;
my $configFile = "";
my $file= "";
my $path = "";
my $fullpath = "";
my $buffer = "";

#get full path + configFile
$configFile = abs_path($0);
$configFile =~ s!/!\\!g;                        
$char=chop($configFile);
while($char ne '\\')
  {$char=chop($configFile);}
$configFile=$configFile."\\config.ini";
$buffer = "";


#to read arguments from config.ini
open(FH, "<$configFile") or die "Error: $!\n";                    
binmode FH, ':raw';
    
#copy configFile contents
 my @array;
 while (<FH>)    {
  @array = ();
  $buffer = "";
  $buffer = $_;
  if (length($buffer)>2)    {
   chomp($buffer);
   @array = split(/=/, $buffer);
        
   if     (lc($array[0]) eq lc("myfile")) { $file = $array[1]; }
   elsif  (lc($array[0]) eq lc("path"))      { $path = $array[1]; }
        
   }
}
$buffer = "";
close(FH);
 
my $fullPath = $path . "\\" . $file; 
print STDOUT "$fullPath\n";

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******************************************************************************** And here are the contents for the config.ini: <file> myfile=bbbbbbb.txt path=aaaaaaaaaaaaaaa </file> ******************************************************************************** Comments: The output I got is: bbb.txtaaaaaaaaaabbbbb But I am expecting: aaaaaaaaaaaaaaa\bbbbbbb.txt It seems that the string wraps around itself, but I don't understand why. When I did print $file and print $path individually, they are fine. Can someone please help me?

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