in reply to Re^2: un obfuscate logfiles with xor
in thread un obfuscate logfiles with xor

use strict; use warnings; my $s = q<ÃÎÌËÁßÍÏÎÌÐÏÊÐÎÌßÏËÒÏÇÒÊÆßÓœž“ÏÑ–‘™ÁߑЯÌÇÌÑ‘ŠŒ–šÑœ’ß +™>; print pack "C*", map { $_ ^ 255 } unpack "C*", $s;
<134> 2013/05/13 04-08-59 <local0.info> nu9383.nuspire.com pf

This only works if I run the code in an ASCII encoded file, there doesn't seem to be utf-8 involded here.

unpack "C*", $s; returns a list consisting of the value of each byte in $s. pack with "C*" takes a list of bytes and turns it into a string. Read perlpacktut for more information on that.