Edited on 8/20, 2017

The Solution:

for (@loot) {s/\xD7//g};

The Problem:

I really am a novice at this. I learned some basic CGI programming using Perl 5 from a book. I needs have always been pretty simple and so I have not signed up for any in depth training. Sorry for only supplying one line of code in my original post. I will supply more code in this post. Before doing so I would like to explain a little more about what I am doing in hopes that the additional information will help.

First of all I am creating a fansite for a game that I play. I am copying information from a wiki site and putting it into my makeCREATURE.cgi that saves pre-formatted data to a file that will be used by my creatureDETAIL.cgi script when visitors want to view details of a creature from the game. I use Firefox to view wiki information and perform my copy. I then paste it into Chrome (because that is where my bookmarks are for my stuff). I came up with the necessary substitution statements to take care of everything that needed to be eliminated or html tags added, etc. I just could not come up with the substitution for the multiplication sign. Viewing source of wiki page shows that × is being used for the multiplication sign. I created a small program (lootALTERATION.cgi) to handle all the substitutions I could figure out how to do. I then remove the multiplication signs manually and copy/paste into my makeCREATURE.cgi script.
An example of the information I am copying/pasting is: 0-100× Gold Coin

I will supply the entire code from lootALTERATION.cgi:

#!/usr/bin/perl
use CGI qw/:standard/;

push(@INC, "/cgi-bin");
require("cgi-lib.pl");

&ReadParse(*input);

@loot = $input{'loot'};

print "Content-type: text/html\n\n";
print qq{
<HTML>
<HEAD>
<TITLE>Loot Alteration</TITLE>
</HEAD>
<BODY>
<form method=post action="../cgi-bin/lootALTERATION.cgi">
<table border=2 width=100%>
};

print "<tr>\n";
print "<td>Loot</td>\n";
print "<td>Copy / Paste Paragraph.<br><textarea name=loot cols=70 rows
+=10>";
for (@loot) {s/    //g};
for (@loot) {s/×//g};
for (@loot) {s/ \(semi-rare\)//g};
for (@loot) {s/ \(rare\)//g};
for (@loot) {s/ \(very rare\)//g};
for (@loot) {s/ \(extremely rare\)//g};
for (@loot) {s/\R/<br>/g};
print "@loot";
print "</textarea></td>\n";
print "</tr>\n";

print qq{

<tr>
<td><input type=submit></td>
<td><input type=reset></td>
</tr>

</table>
</form>
</BODY>
</HTML>
};

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I'm sure there are better and more efficient ways of doing things. Not against learning new ways, but this way works and it is what I know. Please be kind. :)
adding <code>for (@loot) {s/\N{MULTIPLICATION SIGN}//g}; only causes error 500

In reply to replace multiplication symbol (&times;) by michael.kitchen

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