You could use a two-stage approach: in the first stage you extract the entire part from <\/Mil to \x9D. In the second stage, you remove any control characters from the extracted substring:

sub remove_ctrls { my $s = shift; $s =~ tr/\x90\x8F//d; return $s; } $text =~ s/(<\/Mil.*?>.*?\x9D)/remove_ctrls($1)/esg;

The /e option makes the substitution part be treated as Perl code, i.e. it calls remove_ctrls() with the extracted substring.

Personally, I find this easier to read than overcomplex regexes which would do it all in one go... YMMV, of course.


In reply to Re: Curious Regex by almut
in thread Curious Regex by HamNRye

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