Hi there Monks!
I am working on this XML file but my problem is that I need to find a way to strip off the first line on the XML file before using XML::XPATH to process it, because it is giving me an error, without this line it works:
encoding specified in XML declaration is incorrect at line 1, column 3
+0, byte 30:
<?xml version="1.0" encoding="utf-16"?>

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I have no choice but remove or ignore this line. Is there a way to tell XML::XPATH to ignore this first line 
<?xml version="1.0" encoding="utf-16"?>

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and start after that? If not, how would you approach this situation to get rid of this first line and process the rest of file?
Here is the code
#!/usr/bin/perl

use strict;
use warnings;

use XML::XPath;

      
my $xp = XML::XPath->new(filename => '/xml_test.xml');

foreach my $row ($xp->findnodes('/HOME/Account')) {

  my $nodeset = $row->find('Record');
  
  foreach my $node ( $nodeset->get_nodelist ) {
    
    my $account = $node->find( 'accnumber')->string_value;
    print "\n $account \n";
   
   }


}

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Thnaks for looking!

In reply to Stripping off the first line of file help! by Anonymous Monk

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