In a message dated 5/4/04 5:19:49 PM Eastern Daylight Time, Jimstone77 
writes:


> In a message dated 5/4/04 4:14:58 PM Eastern Daylight Time, 
> [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes:
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> >> :
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>> > How would I remove any and "only" single characters from a string?
>> >
>> > $_ = "This is a character d g string test";
>> >
>> > I want this to read "This is character string test."
>> 
>> How about:
>> 
>> s/\b[a-zA-Z]\b//g;
>> 
>> Hope that helps.

   I tried all these substitutions. Unfortunately, they also destroy words in 
the string like can't, couldn't, what's, it's, and a multitude of others. 
Anyone with any solutions?


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