Maybe you should put chomp after the filtering line?
Jing
On 4 Sep 2013, at 01:08, Matt <matt.mailingli...@gmail.com> wrote:
> I have this:
>
> while (<IN>) {
> chomp;
> next if /^#/;
> # do stuff
> }
>
>
> It skips to the next item in the while loop of the string begins with
> # and works fine. I would also like to skip to the next item in the
> loop if the string contains anything other then lowercase,
> underscores, numbers, dashes, periods, and spaces. I do not want
> uppercase characters and any sort of other special characters. How
> would I do that?
>
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