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Matching Hex Characters With Perl
Topic:Perl Date: 2005-07-22
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You can match hex characters with \x. Just put \x before the hexadecimal number. For instance, if you wish to replace all backspace characters with nothing, use this:

perl -pi -e "s|\x08||g" file.txt

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