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in thread All special character substitution and/or drop from column names.

Ah sorry, I didn't notice the double underscore. In that case, as other people have pointed out, the /s option is the way to go: 
$ perl -le'$_="Name & Something Else"; tr/ &/_/sd; print'
Name_Something_Else

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Dave.

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