Convert::Recode is a front end to the GNU recode program. It will

Convert::Recode is a front end to the GNU recode program. It will
build a perl tr/// function based on the mapping tables that recode
knows about.

use Convert::Recode qw(ebcdic_to_ascii);
while (<>) {
print ebcdic_to_ascii($_);
}

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