OK, here's the scenario: I have a number of files in various formats (from .doc to .p65) which I would like to extract the text from.
(Why not just open the file and cut and paste the text? Too much work when you have many.)

I tried to make a script which would take in the input file one line at a time, and look for words which contained funky (i.e. non-alphanumeric, non-common punctuation) characters. These words would then be replaced with null, and the new line dumped to an output file. Although this was successful in removing most of the garbage from the text file, it still left about 20%

Does anyone have any suggestions as to how this could be accomplished? It seems like such a simple task, but I've only started in Perl a short while ago.

In reply to Removing Junk from Files by Anonymous Monk

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