I have a string (well, lots of them actually) that looks like this:

char(123)+char(107)+char(112)+char(43)
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I need to be able to parse this out and eval the char(xxx) statements at the same time. I am at a total loss. I am sure it will take a regex of some sort to split that out but that is beyond my meager regex skills at the moment. And then I believe it will take an eval of some sort but again, that escapes me. I have been at this for some time now and think I have lost my perspective.

Alas but I have no working code of any sort ...

A fresh view from someone out there?

Update:

The string to parse actually looks like this with "stuff" before it and "stuff" after it since it is part of a SQL statement:

select char(123)+char(107)+char(112)+char(43) from table
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