I am trying to read from a text file and process each line. The problem is that some of these lines may end up containing a bit of binary data in them (it's a log file from someone elses code) say: 
11/22/2004 04:40:03 -      AD [useraccountcontrol]: nnn
11/22/2004 04:40:03 -      AD [userparameters]: m:                    
+d                        PCtxCfgPrese
11/22/2004 04:40:03 -      AD [userprincipalname]:

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None of my windows text editors have any real problems displaying the file I just get garbage like the above in it. however when I try and read it from a perl file handle: @array = <$filehandle>; then it takes the second line above (userparameters) as the last line.

In reply to Problems with binary data in text documents by omadawn

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