SPUG: removing a special character

[Miles Crawford]

Crap!

How about this instead:

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

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

I forgot the 'g' - the first one only removed the first bad char.

You may also want to add a ' ' to the a-z0-9 bit to preserve spaces.

-miles




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?
>> 
>> Thanks,
>> luis
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