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

I'm trying to read STDERR from an external program. I've got things going with Open3, but I've run into a problem when the C program outputs a ton of backspaces and then the data I want. Is there any way to remove backspaces from a string?

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Re: Regexp and backspaces...
by chipmunk (Parson) on Jan 17, 2001 at 04:08 UTC
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      Oddly enough, \b in a regex is a word boundary, but in tr, as you show, it's a backspace. Good thing to bite beginners with.

      -- Randal L. Schwartz, Perl hacker

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Re: Regexp and backspaces...
by jgallagher (Pilgrim) on Jan 17, 2001 at 04:06 UTC
    Scratch that. I should've looked at the manpage... it's \010.
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