question

[Bruce Timberlake]

~sdpm~
> > $FORM{'subject'} =~ s/[^A-Za-z0-9\.]//g;
> >
> > Doesn't a "." without an escaping \ match *any* character? If so,
> > that would throw away *anything* in the incoming string! :)
>
> Nope, it's a character class. "." loses its special meaning.

I *knew* I needed more coffee... thanks for the clarification!

> Nope, that's what the [^] negation is for.  A very handy thing,
> that negation. "Dump everything but what I want."  I use it for
> HTML escaping and suchlike.

Silly me, I still think of ^ as being just "start of" whatever (like $ 
is "end of")...

{sigh}... much to learn, much to learn... :)
~sdpm~

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