Hi Kent, > Though I haven't fully understood the problem and I'm also tired, so my tip > could be a red herring. > > The good news is if you want to remove only 3 *bytes* from the string > instead of 3 *characters* then that could be straight forward. > > And I believe ".\r\n" might be exactly 3 bytes regardless of unicode magics. > ( That is, depending on what you're doing you could get away without the > utf8 transformation, but I really don't know what I'm talking about now )
I agree with you - and it also explains what we are seeing in terms of that certain data comes through clean, and others doesn't. I too expect that the *entire stream* is not encoded with UTF8 (even though it should be). In terms of removing the last three characters, that is not what is causing the issue. Even if I remove the substr and pass literally $Body = $Response, the data is still corrupted once it goes out via STDOUT. What is also VERY strange to me is that for some reason when I just do something simple like put a use Encoding into the script, everything works fine. Then half an hour later, or a day or two later, and it stops working and starts becoming corrupt again. And THIS is what has my mind completely baffled. I am the only one with access to the servers (and code), and I am not even logged in on the machines when this sudden "change" in behaviour happens. This is however really urgent to me, and I am not by any means the "expect" in terms of programming either. As I've stated in one or two private emails, I am willing to pay someone to look at the code and fix this for us. I'm not asking you to do my homework either - it's a legitimate issue going on here in a semi big application (and it worked fine for about a year and a half before all of a sudden just acting up for some reason). I won't be surprised if this is a OS issue even. -- Regards, Chris Knipe -- To unsubscribe, e-mail: beginners-unsubscr...@perl.org For additional commands, e-mail: beginners-h...@perl.org http://learn.perl.org/
