Perl scripts returning an extra character at endd

Any obvious answer??

[chiyo]

We have just changed servers from a NT host to a UNIX/FreeBSD/Apache set up.

So far all our form mail and survey type scripts are working with some limited and easy straight forward amendments, but one thing has got me stumped.

All the emails received from our form mail and survey scripts have an extra character at the end of each line (or field?) e.g. "www.blah.htmm" or "Dear Chiyoo" or "your age is 433" (gulp!)

Does this sound familiar to anyone?

If it is useful, a couple of the offending ones are the BNBsurvey and BNB form that we downloaded from Big Nose Bird two years ago, and hacked away for NT and also our own needs.

However they worked perfectly on our old NT IIS, and they do now on UNIX too (they append and save responses in a text file on the server, create pretty graphs, and send emails out) except for the ending double character problemm.

Using sendmail.

Maybe i should be changing .pl extension executables to .cgi extensions for UNIX??

Thanks very muchh

(edited by: chiyo at 7:04 pm (utc) on Jan. 14, 2002)

[ggrot]

That's pretty odd. Have you checked the possibility that there might be something wrong with your mail client? Generally the lines end based on the word wrap of the client so it would probably not be a script issue, but perhaps I'm just off here.

[gethan]

> changing .pl extension executables to .cgi extensions for UNIX??

Won't make any difference (unless there is a really wierd setup).

I think this is a candidate for posting the shortest script that exhibits the symptons... wrap with \[perl]

At the very least we'll be able to say its not a perl problem.

[chiyo]

thank you both.. i will check the email in other mail clients first before burdening people with a script and come back.

[amoore]

I can't quite figure out how, but I'd bet a dollar that this is due in some way to line ending characters on unix vs windows. do the scripts print stuff out using "\r\n" or "\r" at the end of lines or something like that?