Gurus: I have 310,000+ files that have some hex characters in them. I'd like to strip these out, and am trying to use Perl and the tr command. These hex codes are interspersed in the lines who-knows where. Plus some files are just fine.

Please help.

use strict;
use warnings;

# Declare package names
my $work_file;

my @files = <E:\\triggers\\1_MERGE_3326\\tests\\*.hl7>;

#$work_file = pop;  # If work_file comes from command line, uncomment
my $inPath = "E:\\triggers\\1_MERGE_3326\\pass";
my $outPath = "E:\\triggers\\1_MERGE_3326\\converted";

foreach $work_file (@files) {

open (WORK, "<$work_file") or die "Couldn't open $work_file."; # Open 
+the working file
open (my $file, ">$outPath\\$work_file") or die "Couldn't open $work_f
+ile."; # open an output file

while (<WORK>) {
    chomp;
    $_ =~ tr/\000-\011\013\014\016-\037//d;
    print $file map {"$_\n"} ($_);
} # end while

    close WORK;
    close $file;
} # end foreac

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I keep getting a "Couldn't open E:\triggers\1_MERGE_3326\tests\20131209_180245424_R01.hl7. at E:\triggers\1_MERGE_3326\remove_chars_dir.pl line 16.

This file is the very first file that appears in my directory listing. I'm also logged in with an account with administrative privileges, so it can't be a permissions issue.

Does a file have to exist before it can be opened? If so, how to create one?

forgive the noob questions, please

In reply to Removing non-printing (hex codes) from text files by moesplace

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