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Simplicus has asked for the wisdom of the Perl Monks concerning the following question:

I am out on the road, and only have a laptop (w/out Perl) so I can't test this out....
Can I erase the contents of a file this way (I don't want to unlink the file, I just want to "clean it out.": 
...
s/./\004/;
...

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Where \004 is ^D?
Simplicus

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