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Try 
$text =~ s/\r?\n/<BR>/g;

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\\r is trying to replace a slash followed by an r, not a carriage return or whatever... and if it is a unix file it won't have a \r even... not sure but mac files are weird, too...

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Re: Re: Replacing line returns with br
by Juerd (Abbot) on Jan 08, 2002 at 00:08 UTC 
    mac   \015
*nix  \012
dos   \015\012
    So, my way of doing this is s/\015?\012|\015/<br>\n/g. 

    2;0 juerd@ouranos:~$ perl -e'undef christmas'
Segmentation fault
2;139 juerd@ouranos:~$

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