Perl one liner to find words longer than 63 characters

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I have a number of XML files containing sanskrit texts to be converted to tex. Latex has a maximum of 63 characters per word for its hyphenation to work, everything longer than that will not be hyphenated. Now I would like to grep my files for these words, only that grep doesn't appear to be the right tool here. Some of the words use IAST encoding, others Devanāgarī. I suppose a perl one-liner could do that?

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In an attempt to give this Q a proper answer, based - on - the - comments (heeding Sobrique's note that parsing XML should really be done with an XML parser):

perl -CSD -lne 'print for /\w{63,}/g' input-file-here

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Remove hyphenation with sed

Some kind of a monster) With perl it should be easier

cat file
ba bla bla hyphe-</page>
<page>nated bla bla bla
and the output should look like

bla bla bla</page>
<page>hyphenated bla bla bla

It's GNU sed (in some other sed-s -E option is used for extended regular expressions)

sed -nr '/[[:alpha:]]+-<\/[[:alpha:]]+>$/{
N
s!([[:alpha:]]+)-(</[[:alpha:]]+>)\n(<[[:alpha:]]+>)([[:alpha:]]+)!\2\n\3\1\4!}
p' file
ba bla bla </page>
<page>hyphenated bla bla bla
and the output should look like

bla bla bla</page>
<page>hyphenated bla bla bla

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Remove hyphenation with sed

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