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in reply to Re^2: Unable to resolve links...
in thread Unable to resolve links...

In the end, it turned out there was a whitespace character at the end of the string. I guess the moral of this story is - you can never be too careful about testing your input, and never assume you know what's in your data. Thanks for all your help everyone. Corwin

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Re^4: Unable to resolve links... (>chomp)
by tye (Sage) on Feb 14, 2012 at 01:42 UTC

    I have long advocated using s/\s+$// over chomp because I consider anything where trailing whitespace matters to simply be broken (it also is useful in that it prevents a stray "\r\n" line ending from being a problem).

    - tye