I am sorry for this stupid question respectable monks but I am new to perl programming and really need help with some perl code and explanations

I need some help on how to read a file, file example:

file1:"?!?!?!/pack/something/whatever.cacshdska"

I want my program to search for the word "something" and read everything except "!?!/pack/something/whatever.c" so if I print it it will output "?!?acshdska",so after it finds the word "something" it will ignore everything from it until ".c" and before it 3 characters before the first special character was found"!"

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P.S. I am trying to convert the equivalent of every character in the file from to hex code but I don't need all the values from the file converted

{
    my $input = do {
        open my $in, '<', $ARGV[1];
        local $/;
        <$in>
    };    
    open my $out, '>', 'hex2.txt';  
     print $out unpack 'H*', $input;
   
}

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I was thinking of a split like this but I don't even know how to implement it, I'm just at the theory right now

split qr{\d\d\d(?:/\w+)+/\w+\.c}

In reply to special pattern reading by N0obieMonk

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