Matching and replacing hex characters

arcnon has asked for the wisdom of the Perl Monks concerning the following question:

I have a characacter in a file that reads CA in a hex editor. It isn't multibyte.

what is the easiest way to replace it. I am using plain ol open

open(F, "test.txt")

Retitled by Steve_p from 'grep 'clear' characters'.

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Re: Matching and replacing hex characters by borisz (Canon) on Feb 07, 2005 at 02:21 UTC
`perl -pe 'y/\xca/?/' <your_data >your_replaced_data` [download] Boris	[reply] [d/l]
Re^2: Matching and replacing hex characters by arcnon (Monk) on Feb 07, 2005 at 02:41 UTC
=~s/\xca//g; did the trick thanks	[reply]