On Sun, 11 Sep 2005, Patrick McCabe wrote: > TMTOWTDI and all that, > > cat native.dump | perl -ple 's/([\da-fA-F]{2})/asc(hex($1))/eg' Shouldn't that be 'chr' instead of 'asc'?... http://www.unix.org.ua/orelly/perl/cookbook/ch01_05.htm asc gives an error but chr works: echo '687474703a2f2f3231362e3135352e3137342e38342f736572766c6574732f6d6d733f6d6573736167652d69' | perl -ple 's/([\da-fA-F]{2})/chr(hex($1))/eg' http://216.155.174.84/servlets/mms?message-i T-Mobile? Mike