Code point \u0008 is not a valid character in XML in Perl script

[iHeaven~]

I am trying to grep the errors from a console log and forming a XML using Perl, For some files I am getting error as "Code point \u0008 is not a valid character in XML at /codepath/getErrors.pl line 498".Browsing for \u0008 speaks about backspace chars, but I'm not sure how to remove this from the string/text.It will be great if you could help me in removing this kind of control characters while reading the console log, so that XML formation runs without any errors.Much Appreciate your help on this!