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If all you have is ASCII data with binary zeros, you might try just stripping out anything that isn't printable ASCII. Something like this might work.
while($line = <INFILE>) {
  $line =~ s{[^ -~]}{}g;  # [^ -~] matches non printable ASCII chars
  print "$line\n";        # your new lines are gone after the above
}

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Re: Re: Mixed Data
by krazken (Scribe) on Nov 09, 2001 at 09:59 UTC
    Someone else suggested... 
    while (<>) {
   print join ' ',split /\x00/;
}

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    And this does remove the binary zeros from inside of the records.
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      Someone else suggested...

      That was me, but you've added a space to the join. If you want to substitute space for null, tr/\000/ /; should work (tr/// wants octal).

      In any case, there is no reason s/\x00//g; wouldn't work if split on that regex does. How about posting some more of your code so we can see what the problem really is?

      After Compline,
      Zaxo

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