On Thu, 31 Jan 2008 07:13:43 -0800 (PST) Richard Reina <richard at rushlogistics.com> wrote: > Does anyone know an easy way to remove "."s from a string like > 192.168.2.16 > > so I get 192168216? Substring seems cumbersome and does not account for length between dots. echo 192.168.2.16 | perl -pe 's/\.//g' John