Hi,

I have the following code (saved in UTF-8 format, using Notepad++):

#!/usr/bin/perl
use strict;
use warnings;

use encoding "cp852";
use utf8;

my $a="aáaxBy";
$a =~ /(.*?)x(A*)y/;

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But it says the following error message: 
Malformed UTF-8 character (unexpected continuation byte 0xa1, with no 
+preceding start byte) in pattern match (m//) at c:\Perl\work\gi\utfte
+st.pl line 9.

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I just don't understand why and how to get rid of it. How can a malformed string be in a UTF-8 saved text file?

Thanks for your help in advance,

Adam

P.S. I need the two "use"-s, because otherwise I wasn't able to print out something like "áéíó" to terminal.

In reply to UTF-8 problem (malformed...) by adamvagyok

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