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:
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:
http://search.cpan.org/~dconway/Acme-Bleach-1.13/lib/Acme/Bl...