#!perl -w use strict; my $buf = "Look, Ma:\nfoo\tbar\tsee those tabs?\nFOO BAR look here - no tabs, just spaces.\n"; print "$buf\n"; use Data::HexDump; print "HexDump:\n", HexDump "$buf"; use Data::Hexdumper; print "Hexdumper:\n", Data::Hexdumper::Hexdump(data => $buf);