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I've dealt with CRLF problems before, but what kind of control characters are these (if that's what they are), and why is it that I could only find them using the perl debugger?

You have encountered CRLF in one of their many disguises. \cM is ^M is <CR>, and \cJ is ^J is <LF>.

As to why you're not seeing them in your editor, I dunno. Does your editor have a setting for showing control characters?

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by redhotpenguin (Deacon) on Feb 17, 2005 at 07:13 UTC
    Thanks for responding. vim -b did the trick. The strange behavior from Pod::Usage threw me for a loop. I've gotten used to <CR>'s in their \r form.
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