Jeff 'Japhy' Pinyan wrote: > > On Jul 11, [EMAIL PROTECTED] said: > > >I am trying to create a sub routine to remove non-printable chars from a > >string, and am stuck on how I should approach this. > > Well, you don't need a subroutine -- just a substitution. > > If you're using perl 5.6, you can do: > > $string =~ s/[[^:print:]]+//g; > > Before perl 5.6, you can do: > > $string =~ s/[^ -~]+//g; > > But it's probably faster (in either version) to use tr/// instead of > s///g: > > $string =~ tr/ -~//cd;
Don't forget that \t, \r, \n, and \f are printable too. $string =~ tr/\t\r\n\f -~//cd; John -- use Perl; program fulfillment -- To unsubscribe, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] For additional commands, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
