Hello, I am trying to work with a XML document and having some encoding-type issues with it. First, this is the first few bytes of the XML document passed through "od -c": 

0000000 377 376   <  \0   ?  \0   x  \0   m  \0   l  \0      \0   v  \
+0
0000020   e  \0   r  \0   s  \0   i  \0   o  \0   n  \0   =  \0   "  \
+0
0000040   1  \0   .  \0   0  \0   "  \0      \0   e  \0   n  \0   c  \
+0
0000060   o  \0   d  \0   i  \0   n  \0   g  \0   =  \0   "  \0   u  \
+0
0000100   t  \0   f  \0   -  \0   1  \0   6  \0   "  \0   ?  \0   >  \
+0
0000120  \r  \0  \n  \0   <  \0   l  \0   i  \0   s  \0   t  \0   i  \
+0
0000140   n  \0   g  \0   _  \0   f  \0   e  \0   e  \0   d  \0   >  \
+0
0000160  \r  \0  \n

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Of relevance here, I suppose, is that it is encoding="utf-16", which appears to me the XML document is correctly formed, although I am certainly no expert in this area. In plain ASCII, this would look something like: 
<?xml version="1.0" encoding="utf-16"?>
<listing_feed>

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Now, I'm trying to do a regular expression match on this string, like so: 
if($string =~ m/xml/)
{
  ...
}

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.. but this does not work... However, this does: 
if($string =~ m/x.m.l./)
{
   ...
}

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Have I completely misunderstood that this type of regular expression match should work? I've tried using the "Encode" module to re-code this to UTF-8, or even ASCII but nothing I do can make this work.

.. I think I must be missing something obvious here...

- dEvNuL

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