file() command

[Anon]

I have a program which executes a perl script using the exec command and pipes the result to a file.I then use the file() command to read in the file to an array.I see that the first character in the first line of the resultant file displays a square character and then the desired line.

$somearray = file("file.txt");

My first problem is that I see that the first 79 characters of the line are not displayed,when I echo the value of $somearray[0];
Since the code works for a file where in I manually enter the same values I believe its to do with the square character normally associated with endl in txt documents.

Thanks

[Anon]

If anyone ever has this error a way to work around it (the only thing I could do) is make sure that you print out something like an endl character into the first line and that somehow takes care of it.The first line arrayline[0] is somehow considered as the second line!.By the way this was file was created using a remote execution rexec do not know if that is what causes it.