#!/usr/bin/env perl use warnings; use strict; use open qw/:std :utf8/; open my $fh, '<:raw', 'FreeCellSettings.xml' or die $!; seek $fh, 8, 0 or die; read($fh, my $off, 4) == 4 or die; $off = unpack 'V', $off; printf STDERR "Offset: 0x%X\n", $off; seek $fh, $off, 0 or die; read($fh, my $len, 4) == 4 or die; $len = unpack 'V', $len; printf STDERR "Length: 0x%X\n", $len; my $act_len = read($fh, my $data, $len); printf STDERR "Actually read 0x%X bytes\n", $act_len; warn "WARNING: Differing lengths, expected $len, actual $act_len" unless $act_len==$len; close $fh; use Encode qw/decode FB_CROAK/; my $xml = decode("UTF-16LE", $data, FB_CROAK); print $xml;