I'm making a crude attempt to parse through some database BLOBS with
some success. Some of the information is in XML format, some in
"text". But a lot of crud exists because of the binary characters.
I originally tried this:
my $ascii = unpack("A*", $blob);
but with limited success. At least it keeps the application from
crashing. But it would be really useful if I could so something along
the lines of replacing certain key combinations with a simple '\n'
or similar.
I'm also not exactly sure what the characters are that I'm seeing.
'less' says that a lot of them are <C0><80> which don't appear be on
my ascii table of characters....
help?
I'm reasonably certain that pack/unpack can do this, but I'm not sure
how.
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