Filtering a file to remove certain hex codes

[gftech]

Hi,

I receive XML files to extract data from. Some times the files come with invalid XML characters such as 0x3, which caused the XML parser (written in Java) to fail. I'm thinking of a Perl preprocessor to remove the invalid chars. Any body has any idea how this can be done in Perl?

Thanks,

 

[feherke]

Hi

perl -pe 's/\x03//g' -i.bak gftech.xml

Feherke.

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[ishnid]

0x3 looks a little strange to me. Usually when you're encoding hex characters like that, you'll have two digits after the 'x'.

 

[gftech]

>0x3 looks a little strange to me
Sorry, it was a typo. x03.