ehm, that's really not what you want... see, [] is already a character CLASS.. which means 'any character between these braces' - in short, an implied OR.
for example: kane@outcast> perl -e '$_=q[-a|b.c];s/[-|\.]//g;print' abc kane@outcast> as you can see, the | symbol ALSO got removed.. on a side note, escaping the . is also pointless... since a . is everything, a character class like this [.] would be the same as saying . so, perl Does The Right Thing, and takes a literal . (escaping the . will give you a warning under bleadperl for sure) what you want is s/[-.]//g; regards, jos Quoting Roger C Haslock <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>: > Perhaps > s/[-|\.]//g; # replace any dash or (escaped) dot with nothing > > ----- Original Message ----- > From: "Scott" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> > To: <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> > Sent: Friday, January 04, 2002 7:48 PM > Subject: More formatting questions > > > > First off, thank you to everyone who has helped me dive into perl full > > force this week. I am glad I am getting to know the language! > > > > My question is about formatting. I need to strip a decimal out of a > > number and dash out of a date. I am importing a file and then > > reformatting it for export to a mainframe. The number's come in like > > this: 100.05, I need to strip out the decimal from that and just > display > > 10005. With dates they are coming in 2002-01-03, here I need to just > > display 20020103. > > > > Thanks in advance. > > > > -Scott > > > > > > > > -- > > To unsubscribe, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] > > For additional commands, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] > > > > > > > > > > > > > -- > To unsubscribe, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] > For additional commands, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] > > > -- To unsubscribe, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] For additional commands, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
