in reply to Regex to convert non-printable to printable char
Replacing all these unprintable characters by the same printable character (in this case a full stop): use the substitution operator
Note the g at the end: it means it will do the replacement many times, i.e. for all the unprintable characters in $string$string=~s/[\x00-\x1F]+/./g
Added s. Thanks to AnomalousMonk keen eyes.
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