Ok, I have what I thought would be a simple concept turning into a real pain. Basically, the thought is this: A user from wherever sends an email to our HPUX machine (using perl 5.6.1) with a file attached to the email. The HPUX machine has an alias that calls a perl script. This perl script simply throws STDIN into an array, and prints out the contents to a file. such as: 
@stuffin = <STDIN>;
open(tofile,">/tmp/filename");
foreach $line(@stuffin)
{
    print tofile "$line";
}
close tofile;

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now, for normal text files, works like a charm....but we now have people that are trying to send us xml stuff (of which I dont know hardly anything about), and for some reason, several characters are being replaced with other chars, causing it to not work correctly...an example is:
xmlns="http://www.com" xmlns:xsi="http://www.foo.com"
becomes
xmlns3D"http://www.com" =xmlns:xsi3D"http://www.foo.com"
any ideas why stuff like 3D gets put in there, and how to I get rid of that stuff?

In reply to email parsing problem? by Octavian

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