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in reply to Data length in strings

Instead of using $/, try reading the file.

   open my $fh, $file_name or die "Cannot open $file_name $!";
   read $fh, my $str, -s $fh;

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HTH,
Charles K. Clarkson

In Section Seekers of Perl Wisdom