Re^3: Turning a questionable string into a number

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 $str*1, "\n";
__END__
Argument "\01\01\03\00\0" isn't numeric in multiplication (*) at - lin
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An alternative for you would also be open($fh, '<:raw:encoding(UTF-16)', 'filetoparse.txt') ... (Updated to add :raw as per choroba's reply, thanks!)

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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]