On Apr 16, jon shoberg said:

>   How do I go about removing characters from a string that are not
>alpha-numeric, a question-mark, < character, or > character ?

You'd probably want to use the tr/// operator.

  $string =~ tr/a-zA-Z0-9?<>//cd;

That'll remove all characters that are not a-z, A-Z, 0-9, ?, <, or >.

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