I am having a problem with the value in one of my scalar variables. There seems to be a carriage return in it and additional blank spaces, but I can't seem to remove them. I have tried the following lines: 
chomp $name; 
$name =~ s/^(.*)(\b|\W)/$1/;

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but it doesn't remove whatever is after the part I can see.

For example, the value in my scalar is '12345 \t \n ' Now of course I cannot see the tab and new line characters so I am not positive what is after the '12345' I am looking for a way to turn this value into a HEX string so I can see it says something like '30 31 32 33 34 35 20 20 20 20 09 20 20 0D 20 20 20'.

Is there an easy way to do this so I can remove the extra stuff at the end?

In reply to Converting decimal value to hex by coldmiser

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