RE: [luau] Perl String Question

[Taylor Cody L. Contr 502 AOS/PETS]

It looks like you already have your answer but since my friend replied I figured I would forward it on.  -Cody   -----Original Message----- From: Paul   $string =~ s\(<b>|</b>)\\;   FYI - Normally those backslashes would be forward slashes, but since his search string contains forward slashes, you can use another symbol to keep perl from getting confused. For instance, I could have wrote s*(<b>|</b>)** instead and it would have meant the same thing. -----Original Message----- From: Matthew John Darnell [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Wednesday, March 24, 2004 5:48 PM To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject: [luau] Perl String Question Aloha,   If I have a string "<b>Yo ho ho and a bottle of rum</b>" is there an elegant way to eliminate the '<b>' & '</b>'?   It would also need to return nothing for the string "<b></b>"   I could hack something up, but I am thinking it could be accomplished in one line of code.  I am sure there is more than one way to do it.   As you probably guessed, I am parsing a web page.   -Matt