I was asked to search a .cmd (windows NT scripting) file looking for specific text occurences. I re-saved this file as a .txt file, and soon found it was chock-full of very strange-looking characters mixed in with regular text. My standard regex scripts can easily search reams of .doc, .txt, and html files, but in this case the searching seemed to stop when the regex hit these odd characters.
Was hoping that the default byte-only kind of searching for 5.6.1 would "float-over" wierd things it did not recognize and just keep looking for text. This did not seem to be happening. I use Activestate Perl 5.6.1 on Windows XP, and can also access a Unix box with Perl. Anyone have any ideas or experience with this? Thanks!
