Jim Schueckler schreef: > I need to remove all characters from a string except 'a'..'z', > 'A'..'Z', and '0'..'9'. > > Could somebody please tell me the magicWords for: > $newstring = magicWords($oldstring); ??? > > I am absolutely new to Perl and regular expressions, so please don't > assume I know anything that everybody else knows. :-)
What makes you think that a regular expression is needed or even the best solution? See `perldoc -f tr`, which will tell you to read on in `perldoc perlop`. Search for tr/ at the perldoc-prompt to jump to the documentation of tr///. You might actually be looking for this: (my $newstring = $oldstring) =~ tr/0-9A-Za-z/ /cds; which replaces runs of non-alphanumeric characters with a single space. See also `man strings`. -- Affijn, Ruud "Gewoon is een tijger." -- To unsubscribe, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] For additional commands, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] <http://learn.perl.org/> <http://learn.perl.org/first-response>
