One way you do this is pick two special characters.
Pick ones that aren't likely to be used often like "\030"
and "\031". Now do this:
my %codes = ("\031" => "\030\001", "\031" => "\030\001");
foreach $item (@items) {
$item =~s/(\031|\030)/$codes{$1)/ge;
print FILE $item."\031";
}
Now the only "\030"s that appear in the file are the
record seperators and you do a simple match like that one
to restore the occasional encoded values.
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