in reply to extracting strings from non-text files

++, but you know there are several implementation of strings available for Windows, too, even two in CPAN (ppt by CWEST and PerlPowerTools by BDFOY)

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Re^2: extracting strings from non-text files
by RonW (Parson) on Oct 24, 2016 at 23:11 UTC

    ppt and PerlPowerTools both had dependency issues (yes, I tried cpan ppt and cpan PerlPowerTools) that I didn't want to mess with. After that, didn't think about the alternatives, was just easier to cough up the simple program I did.