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i have this file in binmode (its hex bin) and its only 190 or so kb,
the file size varies but that really doesnt matter.
what i am trying to do is open the file in read mode, then find all instances
of FF*16 or (FF FF FF FF FF FF FF FF FF FF FF FF FF FF FF FF) and delete it,
but only FF*16 because there are other instances of just FF or FF FF and i would like to leave those instances and just delete FF*16. here is the code i have so far:
open($infile, '<', './file') or die "cannot open file: $!"; binmode $infile; open($outfile, '>', './modifiedfile') or die "cannot open modifiedfile +: $!"; binmode $outfile; local $/; $file = <$infile>; $file =~ tr/\FF*{16}//d; print $outfile $file; close ($infile); close ($outfile);
i had some help and figured out that $file =~ s/\0{16}//g; works great for 00's, but it doesnt work for FF's -.-

i hope you understand what i am treing to do, and thank you for any help i recieve :)
EDIT: $file =~ s{\xFF{16}}{}g; worked great.

In reply to delete FF's from a file by james28909

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