Date: 12 Dec 2006 20:50:04 -0000 From: John Levine <johnl@iecc.com> To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Cc: kline@tao.thought.org Subject: Re: can I use perl substitution to handle hex chars? Message-ID: <20061212205004.35548.qmail@simone.iecc.com> In-Reply-To: <20061212063808.GA31424@thought.org>
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> Seems like lots of files I get off the net use \x80\x98 or the
> like to denote various non-ascii characters. Is there a way to
> use perl (or any other unix tool) to replace
> \x<whatever>\x<whatever> with, say whatever ASCII or ISO-8859-1
> character or characters?
perl -pe 's/\\x(\w\w)/chr(hex("$1"))/eg'
R's,
John
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