Thanks. This worked. I actually had most of it worked out but was just feeding it the wrong information. I'm also blaming it on Friday.
-mark- -----Original Message----- From: Brian Cassidy [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Friday, November 21, 2003 1:00 PM To: Arnold, Mark D; [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject: RE: First alphanumeric character It's Friday, so I may be wrong but... $_ = '__---*&^Test'; /([a-z0-9])/i; print $1; gives me: T -----Original Message----- From: Arnold, Mark D [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Friday, November 21, 2003 2:53 PM To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject: First alphanumeric character I suppose this should be easy, but I can't seem to figure it out. How would I grab the first alphanumeric character of a title (ignoring quotes or other punctuation)? Mark Arnold SMSU Libraries Southwest Missouri State University Springfield, Missouri http://www.gordano.com - Messaging for educators.
