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cboesch has asked for the wisdom of the Perl Monks concerning the following question:

Hi,

When I print a variable to STDOUT:
printf "%s.\n", $var;
I get:
QeTEv2804.

When I print the same varible to a file:
open DEBUG, ">>debug.txt" or confess "Couldn't open file";
printf DEBUG "%s.\n", $var;
close DEBUG;
I get:
QeTEv2804^@^@^@.

What could be the reason for that?
Thanks,
Christian