If you know which tag corresponds to which punctuation mark, it should be a cinch to convert each one via a substitution. Something like this should work: 


my $line = 'Text with unusual punctuation<91><91><91>  I<92>m not goin
+g to lie<93> this is odd text<94>';

$line =~ s/<91>/./g;
$line =~ s/<92>/'/g;
$line =~ s/<93>/,/g;
$line =~ s/<94>/!/g;
# etc.

[download]

Or, if processing the entire file, instead of line by line, you could try it this way: 

my $source = 'my_filename.txt';
my $target = 'new_filename.txt'; #THIS FILE WILL BE OVERWRITTEN

open SOURCE, "<$source" or die "Can't open $source. $!\n";
@array = <SOURCE>;
close SOURCE;

s/<91>/./g for @array;
s/<92>/'/g for @array;
s/<93>/,/g for @array;
s/<94>/!/g for @array;

open TARGET, ">$target" or die "Can't open $target. $!\n";
print TARGET @array;
close TARGET;

[download]

Blessings,

~Polyglot~

In reply to Re: convert tags to punctuation by Polyglot
in thread convert tags to punctuation by Anonymous Monk

Title:
Use:  <p> text here (a paragraph) </p>
and:  <code> code here </code>
to format your post, it's "PerlMonks-approved HTML":


  • Posts are HTML formatted. Put <p> </p> tags around your paragraphs. Put <code> </code> tags around your code and data!
  • Titles consisting of a single word are discouraged, and in most cases are disallowed outright.
  • Read Where should I post X? if you're not absolutely sure you're posting in the right place.
  • Please read these before you post! —
  • Posts may use any of the Perl Monks Approved HTML tags:
    a, abbr, b, big, blockquote, br, caption, center, col, colgroup, dd, del, details, div, dl, dt, em, font, h1, h2, h3, h4, h5, h6, hr, i, ins, li, ol, p, pre, readmore, small, span, spoiler, strike, strong, sub, summary, sup, table, tbody, td, tfoot, th, thead, tr, tt, u, ul, wbr
  • You may need to use entities for some characters, as follows. (Exception: Within code tags, you can put the characters literally.)
            For:     Use:
    & &amp;
    < &lt;
    > &gt;
    [ &#91;
    ] &#93;
  • Link using PerlMonks shortcuts! What shortcuts can I use for linking?
  • See Writeup Formatting Tips and other pages linked from there for more info.