Re^3: Attempt to parse a line with odd characters is unsuccessful.

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in reply to Re^2: Attempt to parse a line with odd characters is unsuccessful.
in thread Attempt to parse a line with odd characters is unsuccessful.

Whitespace is whitespace. Windows nor linux should matter (granted the eol delimiter is different but they're both whitespace). I'm guessing there's more to the code and/or data than the snippet you've shown. If you could give more details for 'It keeps coming back when I show the value in the interpreter as "undef"', we could track down the issue.