#!/usr/bin/perl -W use strict; use warnings 'FATAL'; use diagnostics; use utf8; use 5.008_008; my $s1; my $s2; $s1 = 'This is B & B and T & D.'; $s1 =~ s/\\\$//g; printf("%s\n", $s1); $s2 = 'This is B & B and T & D.'; $s2 =~ s/\x24//g; printf("%s\n", $s2); 1;