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Anonymous Monk has asked for the wisdom of the Perl Monks concerning the following question:

I am planning to update Perl scripts we have that were created in 1998. What kind of things will updating the scripts with latest Perl Technology do for my server? Will it give me faster processing time and what else? I see some of the scripts are using the pack function:
$value =~ s/%(..)/pack("c",hex($1))/ge;
Please advise.