On Jan 4, [EMAIL PROTECTED] said: >see, [] is already a character CLASS.. which means 'any character >between these braces' - in short, an implied OR.
Good. You said it so I don't have to. >what you want is s/[-.]//g; When I see a construct such as that (s/[...]//g), I often suggest using tr/...//d instead, if only so that the programmer learns another tool and how it is useful. tr/-.//d; -- Jeff "japhy" Pinyan [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://www.pobox.com/~japhy/ RPI Acacia brother #734 http://www.perlmonks.org/ http://www.cpan.org/ ** Look for "Regular Expressions in Perl" published by Manning, in 2002 ** <stu> what does y/// stand for? <tenderpuss> why, yansliterate of course. -- To unsubscribe, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] For additional commands, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
