Well I could read it, but only to a certain point. I could read the first 231 lines in text mode.

I thought that since it was a text file, or at least I thought it was that I shouldn't go in to binmode.

However, since then svsingh helped me to get this working. I've modified his code to this: 

#!/usr/bin/perl -w
use strict;

open FH, 'pub71.html';
binmode FH;
$\ = "<BR>";
while (<FH>) {
   next if $_ =~ /\,/;
   next if $_ =~ /^[a-z]/;
   if ( m/(.+)\s(\d{1,2}\.\d{2})%\s(.+)\s*<BR>/ ) {
        print "City:$1\tCounty:$3\tTax$2\n";
        }
   }
close FH;

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and it now reads all the information that I want.

There is no emoticon for what I'm feeling now.

In reply to Re: Re: Stripping non alphanumeric characters and leaving punctuation characters from a file by Popcorn Dave
in thread Stripping non alphanumeric characters and leaving punctuation characters from a file by Popcorn Dave

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