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Have you tried using your hex dump tool on your input data file ("name.txt")? If so, do you find that this file actually contains UTF-16BE data? In that case, you should open the file like this: 

open (CID,'<:encoding(UTF-16BE)', 'name.txt') or die "name.txt: $!";

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If you don't do that, your use of   split /\s+/ will not work as expected/intended, because every "whitespace" character will be treated as occurring in isolation, preceded by a null byte (and followed by whatever the high-byte happens to be for the next UTF-16 character), so any occurrence of two adjacent UTF-16 whitespace characters will create an extra null-byte element in the list returned by split.

By opening the file with the correct encoding layer, as suggested in the line of code given above, perl will read the character data correctly, and character-based operations will work as expected.

In reply to Re^3: unreadable hash keys by graff
in thread unreadable hash keys by nujgnahz

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