This shouldn't happen, except when you explicitly end your script when it recieves an ^X. Perl will eat anything you throw at it - even when reading in with something like while (<>) {, even "\00" bytes and stuff like that.

This seems to suggest your problem is in some other part of your pipeline (maybe some other program is processing your output?), or you don't use the standard while(<>) method of reading lines from a file.

You can ofcourse filter out the ^X characters by doing something like:

while (<>) {
    s/\30//g;
    # ... do stuff
}
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Update: ofcourse, the program you're referring to might not be yours, it might not even be perl (booh! hiss!) - in that case: see the comment by Abigail-II (Never knew there were 2)

-- 
Joost       downtime n. The period during which a system
            is error-free and immune from user input.
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