I'm recieving text input and I find that it has escape characters in it that I want to remove.

Under more and print, you obviously can't see these characters, but if you write out the contents of the variable to a file and vim it, you can see something like:
text^e^e^e^e
I'm using this to try and strip the characters:
$var=~s/someregex//g
Where someregex has been: \005,\cE,\ce,\x005,\x0x005
No luck. Anyone know what this mysterious escape character is and how I can get rid of it? Note that it only appears on the end of the string, and that the number of them is random.

Declarent

In reply to Regex question: How do I remove an escape code from text? by Declarent

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