On Feb 4, 2008 1:02 AM, <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: snip > Here's what I got from file file.txt > > file.txt: Big-endian UTF-16 Unicode English character data, with very > long lines, with CRLF, CR, LF line terminators > > Does this explain why my regexp search wasn't working? snip
It might. How were you opening the file? If you weren't opening it as a UTF-16BE file then that would likely be a cause of error. Try this and let us know what happens: open my $fh, "<:encoding(utf16be)", $file or die "could not open $file: $!"; -- To unsubscribe, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] For additional commands, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://learn.perl.org/