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in thread A little win

Combine that with tye's suggestion and we're down to:

:'<,'>!perl -pe 'tr/<>//d; $_ = pack "C*", split ","'

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Re^3: A little win (!split)
by tye (Sage) on Oct 19, 2011 at 13:19 UTC

      ... simplicity wins again.

Re^3: A little win
by Tux (Canon) on Oct 19, 2011 at 07:56 UTC

    Please read perldoc -f split, as the first argument to split is usually a regex, not a string

    :'<,'>!perl -pe 'tr/<>//d;$_=pack"C*",split/,/'

    Enjoy, Have FUN! H.Merijn

      Good point! I'll try to remember this from now on.