On Fri, 2 Mar 2007, amit hetawal wrote: > Hello all, > > I have a string which comes from a database entry which looks like: > > $temp = "XXXXX'YYYY'ZZZZ"; > now i want to remove all the single qoutes from this string ( ' ) so > as to make it looks like: > > "XXXXXYYYYZZZZ" > > I am trying to write a simple regex for it but its not working for me. > > $temp = ~s/^'$//g; > > i know there is something wrong with the ( ' ) 's . But dont know what. > > > Please advice whats going wrong here, and whats the idea behind this.
You don't need the anchors (^,$). If I understand this correctly, then the only line it would match is: ' A single byte line, not including the /n. HTH, Kevin Kevin Viel PhD Candidate Department of Epidemiology Rollins School of Public Health Emory University Atlanta, GA 30322 _______________________________________________ ActivePerl mailing list ActivePerl@listserv.ActiveState.com To unsubscribe: http://listserv.ActiveState.com/mailman/mysubs
