I need change the %xx HEX characters to chars. I am trying with this code but it does not works:
#!/usr/bin/perl -w
my $cadena = "%40%61%62";
print $cadena."\n";
$cadena =~ s/%//g;
print "cad: ".$cadena."\n";
my $string =~ s/([a-fA-F0-9][a-fA-F0-9])/chr(hex($1))/eg;
print "traducida: ".$string;
Change
my $string =~ s/([a-fA-F0-9][a-fA-F0-9])/chr(hex($1))/eg;
to
$cadena =~ s/([a-fA-F0-9][a-fA-F0-9])/chr(hex($1))/eg;
so that search and replace is done on $cadena
.
Output: @ab
40 => @
61 => a
62 => b
A better regex pattern:
$cadena =~ s/([[:xdigit:]]{2})/chr(hex($1))/eg;
Use the POSIX character set [:xdigit:]
to match a single hexadecimal character and use {2}
to specify two and only two of them.