On 04/25/2016 09:06 AM, John Nash wrote: > perl.x86_64 > 4:5.10.1-141.el6_7.1 > > perl-Convert-Bencode.noarch > 1.03-9.el6 That's a different module - very old and doesn't support forcing the data type to string. What you want is this module: http://search.cpan.org/dist/Bencode/lib/Bencode.pm Cheers