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From: carl@mugwump.UK.Sun.COM (Carl Johnson - Sun EHQ - MIS)
Newsgroups: comp.lang.perl
Subject: Help! (What else?)
Keywords: perl
Message-ID: <4569@male.EBay.Sun.COM>
Date: 22 Jan 91 18:15:05 GMT
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Greetings,
	First off I am an extremely novice perl user, ie I just compiled the source, so my apologies if I am making an obvious mistake.  A file I have, has been run through cat -v and to undo this I have been given the following perl commandline :-

	perl -pe 's/\^(.)/sprintf("%c",ord($1) &~ 0x40)/ge'

However when I type in the following :-

	perl -pe 's/\^(.)/sprintf("%c",ord($1) &~ 0x40)/ge' < thefile

I get :-
	syntax error in file /tmp/perl-ea06498 at line 2, next token "}"
	Execution aborted due to compilation errors.
  
Any help, RTFM's etc greatfully received.


Cheers,
	Carl.