in reply to Removing Junk from Files

if you're on a *nix system:

strings filename

Yeah, it's not perl, but it was made for *exactly* this sort of thing and works quite well. Regards,

--RT

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Re: Re: Removing Junk from Files
by idnopheq (Chaplain) on Apr 12, 2001 at 19:27 UTC
    Sure! In case you cannot find a Win32 port (I anticipate you are on a Win32 box), get strings from PPT.

    HTH
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