hi I am having a problem to replace a special character ^@.
When I tried to read a file with a multiple lines, each line has a special ^@
20111107.............^@^@
1234ABCD12334........^@
1234ABCD96758........^@
I am trying to use the following way to remove this char but the line was unable to remove.
while(readline $filein) {
my $line = $_;
$line =~ s/^@+$//g;
}
When I print the line again, all the lines were screwed and print differently on ths second line. Can someone help? If you use vi editor, the specical char is created with Control-V Control-@ key strokes

In reply to replace specical char ^@ to empty char by tcheungcm

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