On Sun, 2006-25-06 at 00:14 +0500, Sara wrote: > Need help to remove EVERY thing (non-alphabets, symbols, ASCII codes etc) > from a string except for a-zAZ, 0-9, dash and underscore. > > $string =~ s/?????? > > Thanks, > Sara. >
By dash, I assume you mean ASCII character 0x2D. English version: $string =~ s/[^-0-9A-Za-z_]//g; Non-English version: use locale; use POSIX; $string =~ s/[^-[:alnum:]]//g; See: perldoc perlretut perldoc perlre perldoc locale perldoc POSIX -- __END__ Just my 0.00000002 million dollars worth, --- Shawn "For the things we have to learn before we can do them, we learn by doing them." Aristotle * Perl tutorials at http://perlmonks.org/?node=Tutorials * A searchable perldoc is at http://perldoc.perl.org/ -- To unsubscribe, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] For additional commands, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] <http://learn.perl.org/> <http://learn.perl.org/first-response>
