hi-
i'm tring to write a simple script that opens a set of html files and replaces one hunk of text with another. i'm using 5.6.0 on solaris 8. the script runs fine, and correctly replaces every piece of text that it should. problem is this: it seems to convert the mode of the file in a way that renders it unreadable to an application that's used to opening ascii files. here's a synopsis of how i'm doing my edit: $file = "test.html" print "opening $file.\n"; open(*HTML, "+> $file"); truncate *HTML, 0; print *HTML "testing file type conversion\n"; close(*HTML); before running my script on the specified file, file reports a type of ascii text: % file accepted-candidates.html test.html: ascii text after running my script, here's what i'm seeing: % file accepted-candidates.html test.html: English text i'm guessing that my file is now UTF-8 encoded - how do i force perl to output a vanilla ascii file? thanks- dan -- To unsubscribe, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] For additional commands, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
