I'm a novice at Perl.

Ran into a problem reading an idrive.com log file on Windows XP computer.

My solution looks like: 
my $logopen = open LOGFILE,"<:encoding(UCS-2LE)", $file;
seek LOGFILE, 2, 0;
local $/ = undef;
my $lines = <LOGFILE>;
print '<li>';
if ( $lines =~ /Backup Completed/ )
{
  print "IDrive Backup Completed: ";
}
else
{
  print "<b>Backup FAILED:</b> ";
}
print $file . "</li>\n";

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According to notepad++ the IDrive log file was UCS-2 LE. Perl would not slurp the file into a string until I specifically used ":encoding(UCS-2LE)" and until I skipped past the first two bytes of the file. If I did not skip the first two byes I would get a "wide character warning" and "$lines = <LOGFILE>" would only capture a few characters out of a 1088 character file.

I'm still wondering:
1. If Perl should have handled the UCS-2LE file without needing to include the encoding or the skipping of bytes
2. If the IDrive log files might be a non-standard or corrupted UCS-2LE

Bruce

In reply to Problems Handling UCS-2LE by Ecurb

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