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Good questions, but the only thing I haven't given you is a self-contained example that you could run. Apologies. However, I just resaved the file out as unicode 8-bit and everything worked just fine. So, problem solved. A big thanks to all who took the time to response.

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Re^3: Turning a questionable string into a number
by haukex (Archbishop) on Jun 29, 2017 at 19:53 UTC
    I just resaved the file out as unicode 8-bit and everything worked just fine.

    Ah yes, Windows does like UTF-16...

    use warnings;
use strict;
use Encode 'encode';
my $in = "1130\t";
my $str = encode('UTF-16', $in, Encode::FB_CROAK);
$str=~s/^\xFE\xFF|\t//g; # remove BOM & tab
print $str*1, "\n";
__END__
Argument "\01\01\03\00\0" isn't numeric in multiplication (*) at - lin
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    An alternative for you would also be open($fh, '<:raw:encoding(UTF-16)', 'filetoparse.txt') ... (Updated to add :raw as per choroba's reply, thanks!)

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      Also note that on Windows, you need to specify :raw first when specifying a file encoding. See e.g. Re^3: unicode in windows. 
      ($q=q:Sq=~/;[c](.)(.)/;chr(-||-|5+lengthSq)`"S|oS2"`map{chr |+ord
}map{substrSq`S_+|`|}3E|-|`7**2-3:)=~y+S|`+$1,++print+eval$q,q,a,

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