Re^4: By the shine on my bald pate, I dislike this encoding stuff

Thank you. I had no idea. That does work for the files that are ANSI. Most bizarrely,

my @LINES = <ORDERFILE>;
my $filedata = join '',@LINES;
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works but the following does not + I get loads of warnings: "utf8 "\xA3" does not map to Unicode"

my $filedata = <ORDERFILE>;
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