Re: delete FF's from a file

tr doesn't take a regular expression.

Most likely you will want to use s/// instead.

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Re^2: delete FF's from a file by james28909 (Novice) on Feb 11, 2013 at 09:26 UTC
i did try $file =~ s/\F{16}//d as well as $file =~ s/\0{16}//g and it still did not work	[reply]
Re^2: delete FF's from a file by james28909 (Novice) on Feb 11, 2013 at 09:27 UTC
i did try $file =~ s/\F{16}//d as well as $file =~ s/\F{16}//g and it still did not work	[reply]
Re^3: delete FF's from a file by Corion (Pope) on Feb 11, 2013 at 09:30 UTC
Neither `\F` nor `\FF` are how you represent an "FF character" in a string. Most likely you want `\x{FF}`, but you will find more information in the documentation as linked by Anonmyous Monk here already.	[reply] [d/l] [select]
Re^3: delete FF's from a file by Anonymous Monk on Feb 11, 2013 at 09:30 UTC
`$ perl -we " s/\F{16}//g " Unrecognized escape \F{ passed through in regex; marked by <-- HERE in + m/\F{ <-- HERE 16}/ at -e line 1. Use of uninitialized value $_ in substitution (s///) at -e line 1.` [download] Quote and Quote like Operators, perlrequick, strictures, Read this if you want to cut your development time in half!	[reply] [d/l]