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Old 06-25-2009
Replace any control character in the string
Need to replace any control character in the string in perl

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Any help !!!

Thanks in advance
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Old 06-25-2009
what have you tried? you can use [[:cntrl:]]
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Old 06-26-2009
finally I tried to replace any control character with the line $string =~ s/[\000-\037]//;
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