Ah young Browser, wide characters are no laughing matter!

Have you ever done any web programming? If so then you'll have run into wide chracters when using HTML entities.

How about this, try this code and witness the power of wide characters, which really do exist! 
use LWP::UserAgent;
open($F, '>:utf8' , 'wide-chars-example.html');
$url = 'http://www.w3schools.com/tags/ref_symbols.asp';
$html = LWP::UserAgent->new()->get($url)->content;
print $F $html;

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Now open the newly made file using your method... Try: 
your_method: {
   local $/ = 2;
   #open 'wide-chars-example.html', process the 'records'
}

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You'll get an interesting surprise!

Take care!

In reply to Re^3: Dealing with huge text string by mobiusinversion
in thread Dealing with huge text string by PhilFromIndy

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