Charles K. Clarkson wrote:
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> Rob Dixon <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
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> : >I tried all these substitutions. Unfortunately,
> : > they also destroy words in the string like can't,
> : > couldn't, what's, it's, and a multitude of others.
> : > Anyone with any solutions?
> :
> : Hi.
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> : A to
On May 5, 2004, at 2:32 PM, Charles K. Clarkson wrote:
Hmmm. I wonder:
$_ = q|It's a winner and shouldn't fail. Unless someone were prone to
separating sentences with two spaces.|;
print join ' ', grep { not /^[a-z]$/i } split;
I imagine we could fix that:
print join '', grep { not m/^[a-z]$/
Rob Dixon <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
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: >I tried all these substitutions. Unfortunately,
: > they also destroy words in the string like can't,
: > couldn't, what's, it's, and a multitude of others.
: > Anyone with any solutions?
:
: Hi.
:
: A totally different solution:
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: $_ = q(This i
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> In a message dated 5/4/04 5:19:49 PM Eastern Daylight Time, Jimstone77
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> > In a message dated 5/4/04 4:14:58 PM Eastern Daylight Time,
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> >> > How would I remove any and "only" single characters fro
In a message dated 5/4/04 5:19:49 PM Eastern Daylight Time, Jimstone77
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> In a message dated 5/4/04 4:14:58 PM Eastern Daylight Time,
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>> > How would I remove any and "only" single characters from a string?
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>> > $_ = "This is a charac
[EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
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> How would I remove any and "only" single characters from a string?
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> $_ = "This is a character d g string test";
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> I want this to read "This is character string test."
s/(?:\s+[b-hj-z]\b|\b[b-hj-z]\s+)//ig;
John
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On May 4, 2004, at 3:05 PM, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
How would I remove any and "only" single characters from a string?
$_ = "This is a character d g string test";
I want this to read "This is character string test."
How about:
s/\b[a-zA-Z]\b//g;
Hope that helps.
James
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[EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
How would I remove any and "only" single characters from a string?
$_ = "This is a character d g string test";
I want this to read "This is character string test."
Off the top of my head...untested:
$string =~ s/ \w\b//g;
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How would I remove any and "only" single characters from a string?
$_ = "This is a character d g string test";
I want this to read "This is character string test."
