#!/usr/bin/perl -w use strict; my ($infile, $outfile, $line); $infile = "c:/perldev/restore.txt"; $outfile = "c:/perldev/fixed_restore.txt"; open (INFILE, $infile) || die "Can't open $infile! $!"; open (OUTFILE, ">$outfile) || die "Can't open $outfile! $!"; while () { $line = $_; $line =~ s/^[:cntrl:]{0,2}//; print OUTFILE $line; } close (INFILE); close (OUTFILE);