Match hex value in string (Perl)

Shell Programming and Scripting
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I am trying to match a character return from a website so that I can replace it. It is the '...' character (didnt even know it existed initially). The character apparently has the hex value of 2026, but in the script, attempting to substitute regular 3 periods is not working.

What am I missing?

$plot =~ s/\x20\x26/.../g;
$plot =~ s/\.../.../g;
$plot =~ s/\x2026/.../g;

None of these are working, and I am not sure where to go from here.. Suggestions on a direction to take this would be greatly appreciated!

Chris

---------- Post updated at 01:26 PM ---------- Previous update was at 01:09 PM ----------

As I have continued googling on this problem, it is looking like this is a true unicode character, so I have also tried \u2026 as well

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I'm not familiar with perl's unicode capabilities, but assuming that the unicode 2026 character is encoded in utf8, a non-unicode/utf-8 aware approach will have to match a sequence of three bytes: 0xE2 0x80 0xA6.

Unicode Character 'HORIZONTAL ELLIPSIS' (U+2026)

$ printf '\xe2\x80\xa6\n' | perl -lne 'print "MATCHED: $_" if /\xe2\x80\xa6/'
MATCHED: �

Regards,
Alister

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Thanks! Thats exactly what I needed!