Mimi Cafe wrote:
Yes all non-alphanumeric and non-whitespace. I have a database for people to
search using a keyword or all alphanumerical words (including space) are
valid, but no special characters. All the characters I am substituting below
are invalid characters for the search.
$string =~ s/\$%\?\^!\+\@'\\|`\?#~=\*><"//g;
$string =~ s/[^[:space:][:alnum:]]//g;
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Just my 0.00000002 million dollars worth,
Shawn
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as it is about coding.
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