[BNM] Perl virgin seeks advice!

[AndrewGill73@gmail.com]

Cheers - ok, the script uses a library called "XML::Parser" and fails at the
first line below:

eval {$p->parsefile("filename.xml");};
    if($@){  #if error with parsing file
      print "Error Processing XML File - $@\n";

#rename("/home/inboxchroot/home/ibx04/$xmlreplace","/home/inboxchroot/home/ibx04/$xmlerror");
    }

I know the Perl script has run before with exactly the same XML file! So I'm
guessing (and hoping) there is switch I can use when running the script. I
could be completely wrong of course!

Many thanks
cheers,
Andy

On Thu, Aug 7, 2008 at 4:07 PM, Karl Dane <karl at rince.net> wrote:

> Hard to know without seeing the script, but it may be that you need to
> properly decode the utf8-encoded characters to perl internal strings.
>
> Have a look at 'Encode' -
> http://search.cpan.org/~dankogai/Encode-2.26/Encode.pm<http://search.cpan.org/%7Edankogai/Encode-2.26/Encode.pm>
>
> Karl
>
>
> 2008/8/7 AndrewGill73 at gmail.com <andrewgill73 at 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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