could it be that my text document is DOS formatted? Perl does not seem to be recognizing the UTF codes at all. I cannot do anything to access them, and when I try to manipulate the line, most of the time I get a line like this
Malformed UTF-8 character (overflow at 0xa0c75a60, byte 0x70, after start byte 0xbf) in uc at ./qNa.pl line 15, <IN> line 25.
joe