Re: perl read a file on Windows is very strange

This looks as if your file is in UTF-16LE encoding. Use the following to read it:

my $filename = "C:\\TEMP\\PT_TEST_STAT_EXP_export.log";
open my $fh, '<:encoding(UTF-16LE)', $filename
    or die "Couldn't read '$filename': $! / $^E";
while (<$fh>) {
    ...
};
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Re^2: perl read a file on Windows is very strange by ikegami (Patriarch) on Nov 22, 2010 at 22:40 UTC
That will fail to convert CR LF to LF even though :crlf is used, and it will corrupt a number of character combinations. (Specifically, the character U+0A0D and pairs of the form U+0Dxx U+xx0A.) Fix if you want CR LF ⇒ LF conversion: `open my $fh, '<:raw:perlio:encoding(UTF-16LE):crlf', $filename or die "Couldn't read '$filename': $! / $^E";` [download] Fix if you want to leave CR LF intact: `open my $fh, '<:raw:perlio:encoding(UTF-16LE)', $filename or die "Couldn't read '$filename': $! / $^E";` [download] (Mind you, corruption is very unlikely to occur since you'd have to be dealing with Malayalam characters. The non-functioning :crlf layer a more likely problem.) It's unfortunate that one has to go through these shenanigans when dealing with non-ASCII encodings.	[reply] [d/l] [select]
Re^3: perl read a file on Windows is very strange by perlisfun (Sexton) on Nov 23, 2010 at 17:46 UTC
PerlIsFun Thank you very much. It works like charm!	[reply]