SPUG: removing a special character

[Miles Crawford]

> Works great, but how I keept the spaces?

Read my own reply, or even better read http://perldoc.perl.org/perlre.html ;)

-miles


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> On 10/3/06, Miles Crawford <mcrawfor at u.washington.edu> wrote:
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>> Crap!
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>> How about this instead:
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>> $foo = 'string\' with b at d `chars';
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>> $foo =~ s/[^a-z0-9]//ig;
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>> I forgot the 'g' - the first one only removed the first bad char.
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>> You may also want to add a ' ' to the a-z0-9 bit to preserve spaces.
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>> -miles
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>> On Tue, 3 Oct 2006, Miles Crawford wrote:
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>> > Luis,
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>> > Try something like this:
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>> > $foo = 'string\' with b at d `chars';
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>> > $foo =~ s/[^a-z0-9]//i;
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>> > But read http://perldoc.perl.org/perlre.html first ;)
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>> > -miles
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>> > On Tue, 3 Oct 2006, luis medrano wrote:
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>> >> List,
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>> >> I need to remove this character ' but I'm using linux if I copy paste
>> >> it will show something like this â. any idea how can I fix this or
>> >> how can I just remove everything except numbers and letters?
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>> >> Thanks,
>> >> luis
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