Re^2: Turning a questionable string into a number

Good questions, but the only thing I haven't given you is a self-contained example that you could run. Apologies. However, I just resaved the file out as unicode 8-bit and everything worked just fine. So, problem solved. A big thanks to all who took the time to response.

—Brad
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Re^3: Turning a questionable string into a number by haukex (Archbishop) on Jun 29, 2017 at 19:53 UTC
I just resaved the file out as unicode 8-bit and everything worked just fine. Ah yes, Windows does like UTF-16... `use warnings; use strict; use Encode 'encode'; my $in = "1130\t"; my $str = encode('UTF-16', $in, Encode::FB_CROAK); $str=~s/^\xFE\xFF\|\t//g; # remove BOM & tab print $str1, "\n"; __END__ Argument "\01\01\03\00\0" isn't numeric in multiplication () at - lin +e 7. 0` [download] An alternative for you would also be `open($fh, '<:raw:encoding(UTF-16)', 'filetoparse.txt') ...` (Updated to add `:raw` as per choroba's reply, thanks!)	[reply] [d/l] [select]
Re^4: Turning a questionable string into a number by choroba (Cardinal) on Jun 29, 2017 at 20:00 UTC
Also note that on Windows, you need to specify :raw first when specifying a file encoding. See e.g. Re^3: unicode in windows. ($q=q:Sq=~/;[c](.)(.)/;chr(-\|\|-\|5+lengthSq)`"S\|oS2"`map{chr \|+ord }map{substrSq`S_+\|`\|}3E\|-\|`7**2-3:)=~y+S\|`+$1,++print+eval$q,q,a, [download]	[reply] [d/l]