Or what I've found but never used myself is setting the filemode to binary with binmode()
This lines should be added at the beginning of your Perl script:
binmode(STDIN, ':crlf');
binmode(STDOUT, ':crlf');
binmode(STDERR, ':crlf');
Thanks nostr:npub175nul9cvufswwsnpy99lvyhg7ad9nkccxhkhusznxfkr7e0zxthql9g6w0
I am struggling with converting a perfectly working program on Linux into a Windows version
Can't believe a simple text file is handling differently in Windows (because at the beginning a character is detected in Perl)
The program I posted in the Article, is actually not working because of that ...
Discussion
after a long troubleshooting, I finally understands what went wrong
This is how I created the pwd.txt file
echo "abcde" > pwd.txt
and by doing so, it generated a UTF-16 encoded file, which has the annoying habit of having invisible characters added to it at the beginning and in between the characters as well ...
Windows stuffs
I realized all this because of the use of 'echo' in the Windows terminal
once I used Perl to write the pwd.txt file, everything went fine ... no surprise, no added extra characters
the file generated by the echo command had a BOM invisible character at the start, FF FE and 00 every second character because UTF-16 requires two code units to represent a single character.
surprise, surprise
I see, encoding issues.