NetWallah’s advice is correct, and if you follow it you will save yourself a lot of time and difficulty in the long run. But — to show off Perl’s text-munging power — the following quick-and-dirty script (OK, hack) will produce output close to what you’re seeking (for this data):

#! perl
use strict;
use warnings;

if (my ($field) = grep { /^!!./ } split /\|/, do { local $/; <DATA> })
{
    my @lines = $field =~ m{ minor-latin%22%3E (.*?) %3C }gx;

    for (@lines)
    {
        s{ \\x92     }{'}gx;
        s{   %5C     } {}gx;
        s{   %27     }{'}gx;
        s{   %26amp; }{&}gx;
    }

    print join("\n", @lines);
}

__DATA__
<insert the data here>

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Hope that helps,

Athanasius <°(((>< contra mundum Iustus alius egestas vitae, eros Piratica,

In reply to Re: Can anyone pls tell me how to cleanup this in Perl. by Athanasius
in thread Can anyone pls tel me how to cleanup this in Perl. by Anonymous Monk

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