HI
I'm passing $text, which is text from a file with funny characters into a filehandle that has been opened for sqlldr like so:
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open(FILE,"c:\\file.txt") or die "Cannot open text file\n";
my $text = do {local $/; <FILE>};
close(FILE) or die "Cannot close file\n";

SQLLDR FILEHANDLE
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open (my $sqlldr, "|sqlldr usr/pass \@db");
print $sqlldr "$text";
close($sqlldr);
The text in my file isn't in ascii format, it looks like this below:
                           !"   #

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it looks like a bunch of funny characters that contain mostly non ascii chars, I have no problem loading this data from a sqlldr dat/txt file, but when I try to pass this data as $text to $sqlldr file handle it will not load correctly. It seems as though STDOUT doesn't like the special characters in the scaler variable $text that gets passed to the file handle. Does anyone have any idea why it doesn't load/pass these funny characters correctly? How ca I can change the way STDOUT encodes reads characters? Someone I know mentioned converting everything to base 64 then try passing it.

In reply to stdout and special characters by chuckd

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