Thanks for all your inputs. @stevieb: I think the problem is at line 50 in the file which I am guessing from the error I see after adding :encoding(UTF-8) in filehandle at line 17 which now looks like open(my $fh, "<:encoding(UTF-8)", "20150626102938.txt")

(Thanks to AnomalousMonk for sugestion)

I am on perl v5.10.1 at present and will see if can get it upgraded but it'll be a while before I can get it done.

@AnomalousMonk: I was trying to do this

perl -pe's/\x08//g' <20150625163139.xml >20150625163139.xml

from the code. And I tried using two different file names as well. I just kept getting same error so just left it there. But if I can get it working, then I'll ensure to use two different files there.

I am sorry for causing confusion about 20150625163139.xml. It is just an existing text file (generated at run time) which I have to use to generate xml. I can change it's extension to .txt though.

I tried adding

:encoding(UTF-8)

in filehandle at line 17 which now looks like

open(my $fh, "<:encoding(UTF-8)", "20150626102938.txt")

Before adding the output of script was:

Code point \u0016 is not a valid character in XML at ./Call_to_snmpwal
+k_V_1.pl line 34

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After adding the output of script was:

utf8 "\xB8" does not map to Unicode at ./Call_to_snmpwalk_V_1.pl line 
+35, <$fh> line 50.
utf8 "\xF3" does not map to Unicode at ./Call_to_snmpwalk_V_1.pl line 
+35, <$fh> line 50.
Code point \u0016 is not a valid character in XML at ./Call_to_snmpwal
+k_V_1.pl line 34

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@sundialsvc4: I am sorry for confusion caused by 20150625163139.xml It's just text file with no <?xml version="1.0" encoding="UTF-16" standalone="no"?> at the top I tried adding that tag manually at the top in file 20150625163139.xml just to give it a try but it still gives same error with and without :encoding(UTF-8) added in filehandle

@afoken: Thanks for adding the context link.

In reply to Re^2: How to remove error: Code point \u0016 is not a valid character in XML by Perl300
in thread [Solved]:How to remove error: Code point \u0016 is not a valid character in XML by Perl300

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