Sara wrote: : Need help to remove EVERY thing (non-alphabets, symbols, : ASCII codes etc) from a string except for a-zAZ, 0-9, : dash and underscore. : : $string =~ s/??????
Read perlop: Quote and Quote-like Operators $string =~ tr/-_a-zA-Z0-9//cd; HTH, Charles K. Clarkson -- Mobile Homes Specialist Free Market Advocate Web Programmer 254 968-8328 Don't tread on my bandwidth. Trim your posts. -- To unsubscribe, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] For additional commands, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] <http://learn.perl.org/> <http://learn.perl.org/first-response>