Didn't see this one before I hit 'Send'.
-----Original Message----- From: John W. Krahn [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Friday, August 25, 2006 6:28 PM To: Perl Beginners Subject: Re: Using a regular expression to remove all except certaincharacters. John W. Krahn wrote: <snip> Or remove the /d option for tr///: $ perl -le' ( $_ = q[&[EMAIL PROTECTED] ) =~ tr/0-9A-Za-z/ /cs; print' ghjk 76565 hgfg -- To unsubscribe, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] For additional commands, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] <http://learn.perl.org/> <http://learn.perl.org/first-response>