Hi,
You can do it like:
$var =~ s/\[|\]//g;
or
$var =~ s/[\[\]]//g;
-----Original Message-----
From: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
To: beginners@perl.org
Sent: Fri, 15 Sep 2006 1:54 PM
Subject: removing characters
Hi,
I have a certain variables of emplyee number which comes in the format of
[a0000000] or [u0000000] {whereby 0000000 is some serial numbers}.
I would like to remove the enclosed [ & ] see if it is belong to class a or
u , i can do it as follow
$var = /\[//; $var = /\]//;
if ($var =~ '^a) {
print "$var is class A";
} elsfi ($var =~ '^u) {
print '$var is class U";
}
$var = /a//; $var = /u//;
How can i remove the chars all in a single line? and write the code in a
more perl manner ?
regards
rexo
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