On Fri, Sep 14, 2018 at 10:11 PM ToddAndMargo <toddandma...@zoho.com> wrote: > > On 09/14/2018 07:34 PM, Brad Gilbert wrote: > > $x ~~ s/ <:Cc>+ $ //; > > What exactly is <:Cc> again?
< and > inside of a regular expression is for advanced features If the first character is : then it knows to look for Unicode properties One of those properties is GeneralCategory. The General Category for the weird characters is Cc ( I think it is Control, common ) So this works / <:GeneralCategory<Cc>> / As a shortcut, you can leave off the "GeneralCategory" portion / <:Cc> /