I appreciate your help, but I can’t get a solution to work. Japhy, thanks for the insight into the tr command, but I think the problem is more fundamental than a simple text file. When I run the following script:

 

#/usr/bin/perl -w

# tbb | 26 Sept 2002

# removes non alphanumeric characters from file

 

open(OUT, ">" . $ARGV[0] . "tmp");

 

while(<>)

{

      print $_;

      tr/a-zA-Z0-9//cd;

      print OUT "$_\n";

}

 

close OUT;

 

c:>rem_junk.pl test.txt

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I have included my text file if that helps . . ..

 

Thanks for helping me crack this nut . . ..

 

Tim

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