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in reply to Re: A regex on the same content fails and works, with conditions
in thread A regex on the same content fails and works, with conditions

I added binmode, because I wanted to be sure the data coming off the socket was EXACTLY the same as what was expected.

The regex fails in the first case, whether I use binmode or not, in write_file().