How to read the PCL file to a text file

techperl10 has asked for the wisdom of the Perl Monks concerning the following question:

Hi to all i am in need read the file.pcl and write it to a file.txt.. i am doing this directly by using file handlers, but the format is missing its not a problem.. there are some special characters... like square boxes how to remove those using perl scripts... Is there any another way to do it... plas help me ya.. i know pcl files contains binary data... i want to read the file to a text file.. from that file i am going find my interest.. is there any way... i.e. any modules to open pcl files

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Re: How to read the PCL file to a text file by marto (Cardinal) on Aug 27, 2010 at 08:44 UTC
What exactly are you trying to achieve here? Text stripping? PCL may contain binary data for graphics etc. Are you assuming your PCL is plain text? What is generating the PCL file? Update: see Remove new line characters from PCL file and How to edit a PCL file.	[reply]