"Why is read length hex." - Because that is how I deal with most files I personally work with, so it is more of preference than anything.

The false positive does not show on my pc unless I use unpack('h*' $_); so I am sure it is a platform/architecture scenario between our PC's. Also, from the way I read the OP's question, I thought he is not looking for actually 0x13 in plaintext, I though he was looking for 0x13 after unpacking to hex. If I am wrong I apologize, I were actually hoping to learn something more than anything else.

I am not up to par on Unicode because i havent had to deal with it in any of the material I work on. So if I am way off in left field, I apologize.

In reply to Re^4: How to find Unicode: 0x13 in File by james28909
in thread How to find Unicode: 0x13 in File by dirtdog

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