Re: AW: Perl appears to be introducing whitespace when reading .txt files

2010-04-01 Thread Shlomi Fish
On Thursday 01 Apr 2010 12:25:51 Thomas Bätzler wrote: > Doug Cacialli wrote: > > The unicode / UTF16 issues presented by Thomas and Dr. Rudd are a > > little beyond me. I'm reading up now, but can someone shed some > > light? > > Let's see if I can quickly summarize: > - text is made up from le

AW: Perl appears to be introducing whitespace when reading .txt files

2010-04-01 Thread Thomas Bätzler
Doug Cacialli wrote: > The unicode / UTF16 issues presented by Thomas and Dr. Rudd are a > little beyond me. I'm reading up now, but can someone shed some > light? Let's see if I can quickly summarize: - text is made up from letters (characters). - a computer doesn't "know" letters, it only know

AW: Perl appears to be introducing whitespace when reading .txt files

2010-03-31 Thread Thomas Bätzler
Doug Cacialli wrote: > I'm completely baffled by this and not entirely sure where to start. > > I have a plain text file, testfile.txt, which contains a single line: Could this be an encoding issue? How big is that file? Larger than 18 or 19 bytes? If yes, http://perldoc.perl.org/perlunicode