Hi Monks, I have a very simple code which actually needs to read output from a shell command and this command may return lines with actually double-bytes charcters. 
my @o = `./convert.sh \"$filename\"`;
my @array;
foreach my $line (@o) {
    next if ($line =~ /^\s*$/);
    my %obj;
    my $error = getRecordObject($line,\%obj);
    print "Error code returned is $error for record\n$line\n" if ($err
+or<0);
    push @array, \%obj;
}
.... doing something

print "Total Records : ".scalar(@array)."\n";

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The above will return : "Total Records : 12708" However, there are 
cat ../file.converted | wc -l
12715

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Those 6 records missing are actually lines containing double-bytes char.

20000 1 0 928 20 20131008100121164+09 79a87b78ade9ea2f4c059055ace98046.±¿±Ä»ö̳¶É_<> 902

How to make Perl accept those lines ? Thanks a lot.

In reply to Double-bytes handling with Perl by fredo2906

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