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jfrm
<p>Thank you. I had no idea. That does work for the files that are ANSI. Most bizarrely,</p>
<code>
my @LINES = <ORDERFILE>;
my $filedata = join '',@LINES;
</code>
<p>works but the following does not + I get loads of warnings: "utf8 "\xA3" does not map to Unicode"</p>
<code>
my $filedata = <ORDERFILE>;
</code>
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