Is this text UTF-16?

[bene223]

I'm writing a program in Perl on Windows XP that involves reading the contents of a binary file into an array separated by 1 byte. There is a string that I'm specifically looking for in the file that reads 'AAAAA'. I've found the location of the string, however the hex value of the string is as follows:

41 00 41 00 41 00 41 00 41 00

My guess is that the string is in UTF-16 format but I'm not sure. Can someone lead me in the right direction as to how I would translate this to an ASCII string?

 

[Annihilannic]

This might do it:

use Encode;
print decode('UTF16LE',$string);

Are you certain that it's 41 00 41 00 and not 00 41 00 41? If it's the latter you may need to use UTF16BE.

Annihilannic.