in reply to Getting rid of non-standard ASCII characters

 WIthout worrying about the ranges involved directly why not just remove 'unprintable' characters like this: 

$text =~ s/[[:^print:]]//g

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Re^2: Getting rid of non-standard ASCII characters
by Aristotle (Chancellor) on Dec 19, 2002 at 13:39 UTC
    Usually because of efficiency. If you resort to a pattern at least make it s/[[:^print:]]+//g

    Makeshifts last the longest.

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