in reply to extra spaces between the characters in string

Sounds like UTF-16 to me. Use 
open(my $fh, '<:encoding(UTF-16le)', $qfn)

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to open your file.

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Re^2: extra spaces between the characters in string
by harshashende (Initiate) on Jun 08, 2011 at 08:45 UTC

    Thanks Moritz and ikegami.

    I dont know about UTF-16 encoding , will have a look into this.

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