<div dir="ltr">yes that was it. Now works fine thank you very much.</div><div class="gmail_extra"><br><div class="gmail_quote">On Mon, Apr 25, 2016 at 6:38 PM, Richard Fuchs <span dir="ltr"><<a href="mailto:rfuchs@sipwise.com" target="_blank">rfuchs@sipwise.com</a>></span> wrote:<br><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="margin:0 0 0 .8ex;border-left:1px #ccc solid;padding-left:1ex"><span class="">On 04/25/2016 09:06 AM, John Nash wrote:<br>
> perl.x86_64<br>
> 4:5.10.1-141.el6_7.1<br>
><br>
> perl-Convert-Bencode.noarch<br>
> 1.03-9.el6<br>
<br>
</span>That's a different module - very old and doesn't support forcing the<br>
data type to string. What you want is this module:<br>
<br>
<a href="http://search.cpan.org/dist/Bencode/lib/Bencode.pm" rel="noreferrer" target="_blank">http://search.cpan.org/dist/Bencode/lib/Bencode.pm</a><br>
<br>
Cheers<br>
</blockquote></div><br></div>