c:\@Work\Perl\monks>perl -wMstrict -MData::Dump -le "dd $/; ;; my $s = qq{abc\r\n}; chomp $s; dd $s; ;; my @lines = (qq{Overlapping\r\n}, qq{Strange\r\n}, qq{Text\r\n}); dd \@lines; ;; chomp @lines; dd \@lines; ;; my $line = join '', @lines; dd $line; ;; print qq{$line}; " "\n" "abc\r" ["Overlapping\r\n", "Strange\r\n", "Text\r\n"] ["Overlapping\r", "Strange\r", "Text\r"] "Overlapping\rStrange\rText\r" Textngeping