Greetings!

I have a powerbuilder debug file which is in unicode. I tried encoding it and did some processing. the code is as below:

#!/usr/bin/perl
my $input=$ARGV[0];
open(INFILE,'<:encoding(utf-16LE)',$input) or die("Not able to open th
+e input file $input $!");
while(<INFILE>)
    {
        my $currentline=$_;    
        next if($currentline=~/^\s+(CLOSE|OPEN)\s+/i);
        print $currentline;        
    }
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Next is, I need to decode the modified encoded source file. I tried the below code for decoding but still got empty lines.

open my $fh, '>:encoding(utf-16LE)', $currentline;
open my $fh, '<:encoding(utf-16LE)', $menufile;
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I am finding it a bit tough to understand and get a solution for decoding.Please help me in this. Thanks in advance.