This is the perfect opportunity to share Acme::Bleach. From the docs; The first time you run a program under use Acme::Bleach, the module removes all the unsig

This is the perfect opportunity to share Acme::Bleach. From the docs; The first time you run a program under use Acme::Bleach, the module removes all the unsightly printable characters from your source file. The code continues to work exactly as it did before, but now it looks like this: use Acme::Bleach; http://search.cpan.org/~dconway/Acme-Bleach-1.13/lib/Acme/Bleach.pm http://search.cpan.org/~dconway/Acme-Bleach-1.13/lib/Acme/Bl...