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Re: Regex to convert non-printable to printable char

by CountZero (Bishop)
on Aug 18, 2012 at 06:49 UTC ( [id://988163]=note: print w/replies, xml ) Need Help??


in reply to Regex to convert non-printable to printable char

Replacing all these unprintable characters by the same printable character (in this case a full stop): use the substitution operator
$string=~s/[\x00-\x1F]+/./g
Note the g at the end: it means it will do the replacement many times, i.e. for all the unprintable characters in $string

Added s. Thanks to AnomalousMonk keen eyes.

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