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Ta da! :) 

$s = '\u0069\u006d\u0070\u006f\u0072\u0074\u0061\u006e\u0074';;

$s =~ s[\\u00][]g;;

print pack 'H*', $s;;
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Of course, if that was just a trivial example and the real stuff is actually Unicode, that won't work.

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Re^2: Convert string into plain text
by ultranerds (Hermit) on Nov 30, 2015 at 16:43 UTC
    Thank you - that worked a treat :)
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