#not terribly creative, or attractive, but... print chr hex for (shift =~ /FF/, q{ 7324A361B4 4A75737420 616E 6F74 6865 7220 5065726C20 4861636B65 7221 FF63 9A4B 64A2 ... for Perl :-) } =~ /\w{2}/g)[5..29] ;