Find the relevant text using a regular expression, then go through it two characters at a time and use hex() and chr() to decode (added a closing 00020400 to your data):
my $raw = join '', <DATA>; $raw =~ s/\n//g; if(my($encoded) = ($raw =~ /0002000000(.*?)00020400/)) { while($encoded =~ /(..)/g) { print chr (hex($1)), "\n"; } } __DATA__ 045a010000020000004c45534f4e 4452412043414c4c454420424143 4b2c204920414456495345442054 48415420574500020400
cracks your 'code':
L E S O N D R A C A L L E D B A C K ,

In reply to Re: Reading hex data by saintmike
in thread Reading hex data by borgis

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