Jim Schueckler wrote: > Hi, Hello,
> I need to remove all characters from a string except 'a'..'z', 'A'..'Z', > and '0'..'9'. > > Could somebody please tell me the magicWords for: > $newstring = magicWords($oldstring); ??? > > I am absolutely new to Perl and regular expressions, so please don't > assume I know anything that everybody else knows. :-) Fortunately you don't need a regular expression to do what you want: ( my $newstring = $oldstring ) =~ tr/a-zA-Z0-9//cd; John -- use Perl; program fulfillment -- To unsubscribe, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] For additional commands, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] <http://learn.perl.org/> <http://learn.perl.org/first-response>
