Re: Turning a questionable string into a number

Based on what you've shown us that is quite strange. Are you sure you're grabbing the correct field with $data[12], and have you looked at the hex dump of the entire line? Could you provide us with enough data to reproduce this, like an entire line of input from your file? Have you by any chance reduced the code that you're showing us a little too much, like perhaps you use the ^, |, or & operators somewhere (the latter two maybe accidentally instead of || resp. &&)? See also Short, Self-Contained, Correct Example. Update: Oh yes, and please turn on $Data::Dumper::Useqq=1; or use Data::Dump instead.

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Re^2: Turning a questionable string into a number by bradcathey (Prior) on Jun 29, 2017 at 19:40 UTC
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. —Brad "The important work of moving the world forward does not wait to be done by perfect men." George Eliot	[reply] [d/l]
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 $str1, "\n"; __END__ Argument "\01\01\03\00\0" isn't numeric in multiplication () at - lin +e 7. 0` [download] An alternative for you would also be `open($fh, '<:raw:encoding(UTF-16)', 'filetoparse.txt') ...` (Updated to add `:raw` as per choroba's reply, thanks!)	[reply] [d/l] [select]
Re^4: Turning a questionable string into a number by choroba (Cardinal) on Jun 29, 2017 at 20:00 UTC
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, [download]	[reply] [d/l]


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