in reply to A little win
:'<,'>!perl -pe 'chomp; $_ =~ s/[<>]*//g; $_ = join "", map { chr $_ } + split ",", $_'
Could be written more simply and efficiently as:
:'<,'>!perl -pe 'chomp; tr/<>//d; $_ = join "", map chr, split /,/'
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