Dan Muey wrote: > > $line =~ s/\<|\>|\,|\"//g; > or > $line =~ s/[<>",]//g; # but you may have to backslash the chars here, not sure > exactly, try it and see.
You don't have to backslash these characters as they are not special in regular expressions $line =~ s/<|>|,|"//g; However using tr/<>,"//d is faster and doesn't use a regular expression so you don't have to worry about which characters are special. John -- use Perl; program fulfillment -- To unsubscribe, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] For additional commands, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED]