... I have tried this using

perl -pe's/\x08//g' <20150625163139.xml >20150625163139.xml

But this gives error: Bad name after g' at <script_name>.pl line 13.

How are you invoking the above command? A Perl command invoked from the OS command line via the  -e switch should have a "script name" of "-e" and exactly one line. (Well, one line in Windows, anyway — what is your OS?) Also, you are still redirecting I/O to and from the same file at the same time, and this is still a bad idea (see hippo's previous reply).

An error message like "Code point \u0016 is not a valid character ..." suggests a source file character encoding problem: what is the encoding of 20150625163139.xml? Proper specification of MODE in the
    open FILEHANDLE,MODE,EXPR;
command (see open) should insure proper reading of any Unicode encoding from its file, but I have no idea if XML::Writer handles Unicode strings properly.

Give a man a fish:  <%-(-(-(-<

In reply to Re: How to remove error: Code point \u0016 is not a valid character in XML by AnomalousMonk
in thread [Solved]:How to remove error: Code point \u0016 is not a valid character in XML by Perl300

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.