Hello... I have a question to ask... summerize - I have written a script that opens a utf-16 .xml file(s)... that strips out the XML tags and places the text from the XML into an @array for parsing... The XML files are from a backup software tool, the tool writes it's XML logfiles in both utf-16 and also in utf-8 (I need to skip the utf-8 files)the files are in the same directory using the same filename convention... I can already minipulate the utf-16 XML data as I desire however whan I try to process the source directory I also have the UTF-8 XML file there and my open FILEHANDLE function fails with a :BOM error when I attempt to open the UTF-8 files... On Chatter Box I have ask the question: how can I discover the encoding of a file before opening the file handle I have tried this using  next unless '-B $file'; however this does not work... I was pointed to a module (File::BOM) however this modile is not supported on the intel platform (perl 5.6.4 activestate) 
if( $logfile =~ /.+\.xml/){
  next unless '-B $logfile';
  open(XMLFILE, '<:encoding(utf16)', $logfile)or die "Can't Open:$!";
  while(<XMLFILE>) {
    $_ =~ s/^.*(<.*>)//g;
    $_ =~ s/\r//g;
    $_ =~ s/^\s//g;
    push @txtfile,$_;
    close(XMLFILE);
  }# While XML loop
}#if XML loop
print @txtfile;#for debug only

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My attempt: '-B $logfile'; evedently does not tell me the difference between UTF16 or UTF8... Since I only want to process the UTF-16 .xml files i need help with the syntax to identify the UTF-8 files and skip them... I know that I could use XML::simple or XML::parser, but I am attempting to use regex to accomplish this... This IF statement will basically be updating functionallity to existing script with out writing a whole new one...

Thank you for any help that you may provide...

DBrock...

In reply to how do I check encoding before opening FILEHANDLE by dbrock

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