Mumble file mumble corrupt

jmcnamara has asked for the wisdom of the Perl Monks concerning the following question:

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Re: Mumble file mumble corrupt by Corion (Patriarch) on Oct 01, 2003 at 10:27 UTC
I umm like, suggest err mmrrrmhm, `binmode` - this uh maybe should .. or aah, well, yes I think it should do away with like the file truncation uuuh thing. The ... uuuh - hold a minute - ... other thing, those, what do you call them, uh, extra characters, hmmm - like, did you uuh check for UTF-8 or mmrmmhmm Unicode? `perl -MHTTP::Daemon -MHTTP::Response -MLWP::Simple -e ' ; # The $d = new HTTP::Daemon and fork and getprint $d->url and exit;#spider ($c = $d->accept())->get_request(); $c->send_response( new #in the HTTP::Response(200,$_,$_,qq(Just another Perl hacker\n))); ' # web` [download]	[reply] [d/l]
Re: Mumble file mumble corrupt by jmcnamara (Monsignor) on Oct 01, 2003 at 13:00 UTC
The correct answer is "binmode() the filehandle". This kind of question comes up again and again and "binmode() the filehandle" is almost always the right answer. For those who have seen it or suffered from it before some, or all, of the following keywords will prompt the right answer: Windows, binary, file, problem, corrupt. Corion for example got the right answer although the question was effectively nonsense. So look out for it. It will come up again. -- John.	[reply]
Re: Mumble file mumble corrupt by cchampion (Curate) on Oct 01, 2003 at 12:42 UTC
You could use Mumble::Parser::Simple perhaps?	[reply]
Re: Mumble file mumble corrupt by thinker (Parson) on Oct 02, 2003 at 14:27 UTC
Hi jmcnamara, This has been previously answered by A wiser man than me, here Perhaps your veeblefitzer is clogged. :-) Hope this helps thinker	[reply]
Re: Mumble file mumble corrupt by Abigail-II (Bishop) on Oct 01, 2003 at 10:35 UTC
You didn't use `use strict;`. Abigail	[reply]
Re: Mumble file mumble corrupt by wufnik (Friar) on Oct 02, 2003 at 13:55 UTC
always perilous suggesting non-perl in the monastery particularly when eminent monks have pointed out the uses of binmode but i would use `od -c mumblefile` to scan through that mumble-provoking file of yours, then use `strings mumblefile` to extract all human readable content. those 2 have worked nicely for me previously on binary & corrupt files. there have been rumours strings in particular occasionally yields interesting results when pointed at binary files. ermmm, you need cygwin for this, which i presume is already installed, mumble mumble... ...wufnik -- in the world of the mules there are no rules --	[reply] [d/l] [select]
Re: Mumble file mumble corrupt by Yendor (Pilgrim) on Oct 02, 2003 at 14:26 UTC
You might start by running `s/mumble //g`... IWeThey HOPE Ride	[reply]
Re: Mumble file mumble corrupt by ViceRaid (Chaplain) on Oct 01, 2003 at 11:00 UTC
Speak clearly?	[reply]