Ahhhh.... Sorry about that i got it.. It was a wrong way i was using the =~ s. thing..
My bad !!!! On 3/2/07, Kevin Roland Viel <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > 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 > _______________________________________________ ActivePerl mailing list ActivePerl@listserv.ActiveState.com To unsubscribe: http://listserv.ActiveState.com/mailman/mysubs
