Okay, everybody, it works! Here's the lowdown.
It was a text-encoding problem. UTF-8 and UTF-16 weren't cooperating. Duh. also explains why just ONE character worked.... Seems like perl could deal with 0000000012345678 as an 8bit value, but a STRING of those (000000001234567800000000685708540000000064739567)
was thought to be 00000000, 12345678, 00000000, 68570854, etc, which obviously DIDN'T match. I'm happy to have resovled this one.
That's correct about the for/vs while. Oops! Thanks.
And yes, I'm constantly reminded to consult CPAN. But, I'm just learning perl. I'm not using modules; I'm writing everything myself. The more code you write, the more you learn. I know it's reinventing the wheel. That's how you learn!
"Good programmers write good programs, great programmers steal great programmers." Obviously. I'm trying to learn to be a good programmer before I become a great programmer.
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<student><!-- </student> -->...</student>
<student>...</student >
<student />
And possibly more. (charset? entities?)
Also, it fails miserably (i.e. reads the entire file into memory) at detecting errors.
If you really do wish to reinvent the wheel, time to learn and start using something else.
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This is still in the earliest stage... Obiously, it does absolutely nothing right now. But it will! It will be changed immensely. No worries.
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I don't understand what you mean by that last line....? what do you mean "time to learn and use something else?" Learn... what? Use "something else" as opposed to.... what am I using now?
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