SPUG: removing a special character

[Miles Crawford]

Luis,

Try something like this:


$foo = 'string\' with b at d `chars';

$foo =~ s/[^a-z0-9]//i;

But read http://perldoc.perl.org/perlre.html first ;)

-miles


On Tue, 3 Oct 2006, luis medrano wrote:

> List,
>
> 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?
>
> Thanks,
> luis
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