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What I am trying to do, I have a .txt document that has characters like the following staggared throughout the file:

ÉÍÍÍÍÍÍÍÍÍÍÍÍÍÍÍÍÍÍÍÍÍÍÍÍÍÍÍÍÍÍÍÍÍÍÍÍÍÍÍÍ»

º Some text in here º

º Some text in here º

º Some text in here º


ÇÄÄÄÄÄÄÄÄÄÄÄÄÄÄÄÄÄÄÄÄÄÄÄÄÄÄÄÄÄÄÄÄÄÄ

I am trying to take this .txt file and delete all of these characters and reformat the txt so that the text between the two º º is on a seperate line (I am further planning on putting each line into HTML but thats not a problem).
I am pretty sure I can do this in PERL but I keep having trouble getting past the first line of the file. I know I will have to do some sort of s/// or set up a m//but I have tried and it does not notice these characters. I am opening the file with read & write! Ok, my question!! Will PERL acknowledge these characters or am I barking up the wrong tree or further am I just tripping over the tree! 

 

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In reply to Text Manipulation by Bemer14

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