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Hi,

I am trying to parse Chatlogs files with Perl, but I am having difficulties to decode properly the contents.

I know I could use the external tool iconv to pre-convert them, but I want to do something that runs on Windows & Unix, so all pure Perl code.

I have tried opening the file with the following methods, but all failed and I keep getting BOMs in the text like: "[ 2012.08.26 01:05:35 ]"

Tests:

$path='corp.txt'; # file to parse

use File::Slurp::Unicode;
my @lines = read_file( $path,encoding => 'UTF-16LE') ;

or

open(my $in_file,"<:raw:perlio:encoding(UTF-16le):crlf:utf8", $path) ;
@lines=<$in_file>;
close ($in_file);

And also tried the function from_to() of Encode module.

Any hint?

Thanks in advance.