Thanks to all who replied. problem solved.


Zahir

The only thing obvious is your \s should be \\s when inside double
>  quotes.  State your OS, webserver, browser so we have some idea of
>  your environment and also do as previously suggested:
> 
>  use strict;
>  use warnings;
>  use CGI::Carp qw(fatalsToBrowser);
> 
>  You could also try hex-dumping the file and the returned file and
>  see what's different.
> 



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