> I've tried placing [ ] around each variable, Stop, don't run and read "perlre" before you trying to use any special regex characters. When you put characters inside [] it means "any character" and it doesn't mean "the whole word" [abcd] = "a or b or c or d" and not "abcd" > using the || operator between Did you mean the '|' operator ? ;) C:\>perl -w $line = "Joe Doe 123 Main St. Sometown, USA"; $fname = "Joe"; $lname = "Doe"; $addr = "123 Main St."; $line =~ s/$fname|$lname|$addr|\s//g; print "[$line]\n"; ^Z [Sometown,USA] C:\> And, yeah, don't forget using \Q and \E around your variables. ( not around the whole regex - you'll disable the '|' by this )
