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$text =~ s/[^\x20-\xff\x0a]//g;

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Re: Re: Range of chars except one
by Juerd (Abbot) on Jan 20, 2002 at 01:06 UTC
    Not all data is ascii. Your piece of code will remove all unicode characters, which may or may not be what you want. 

    2;0 juerd@ouranos:~$ perl -e'undef christmas'
Segmentation fault
2;139 juerd@ouranos:~$

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