[BNM] Perl virgin seeks advice!

[AndrewGill73@gmail.com]

Hi David,
The first line is: <?xml version="1.0" encoding="UTF-8" ?>

cheers,
Andy

On Thu, Aug 7, 2008 at 3:49 PM, David Pashley <david at davidpashley.com>wrote:

> On Aug 07, 2008 at 15:25, AndrewGill73 at gmail.com praised the llamas by
> saying:
> > Hi guys,
> >
> > I'm a Perl virgin. I'm working for a customer who's asked me to make some
> > changes to a Perl script.
> >
> > The perl script parses a large xml file that contains non-english
> > characters. When I run the script it fails whenever it tries to parse the
> > non-english characters.
> >
> > I'm executing the perl script as 'perl -w [script name].pl'. However,
> I've
> > tried using the -C switches to turn unicode on but this hasn't given me
> any
> > joy !
> >
> What's the first line of the XML document?
>
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