in reply to Spaces Between Chars While Reading File

I would say you have an encoding problem (like your file is in UTF-16 encoding, and your program is garbling it). In vi, what is the encoding your file says it is? (":set fenc?" will tell) if it really is utf-16 (or ucs-2, etc), the solution is to 
binmode MYQUEUE, ':encoding(utf16)';

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Re^2: Spaces Between Chars While Reading File
by Godsrock37 (Sexton) on Aug 04, 2008 at 15:47 UTC

    The encoding was in fact usc-2... thank you very much sir

    I'll try the code included... thanks again

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