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in reply to Re^2: Wanted: humanly readable `script` output
in thread Wanted: humanly readable `script` output

Not really. Consider:

my $text = "No \x08\x08\x08 good";

$text =~ s/.\x08//g;
print $text;

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Prints:

No good

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