$ARGV problem

[bobby_neel@yahoo.ca]

I have the following perl script but when I use the $ARGV variabe and
try to run in the unix it gives me error. The name of the file is
FTP_FILE

if($ftp_status= =0) {
print "\nPut file $FILENAME";

# Quit the FTP session

$ftp->quit() or warn "\nCouldn't quit";
} else {
print "\nFailed to put file.";
$ARGV[2] ="Failed to put the file";
}
The error message is

Unrecognized character \xBA at FTP_FILE line 64.