Hi Jack,

Would you please share the results with us? I'm dealing with a similar
problem now, trying to prevent certain characters and strings frm being
submitted as email addresses, like '#email#' and 'dont'. The code I've used
just isn't working.

Thanks!
Jim

At 10:13 AM 5/9/98 -0700, you wrote:
>Problem solved courtesy of the folks on this list. Thanks much.
>
>Jack
>
>
>> Question for perl fans:
>> 
>> I'm sure this is simple to do, but I can't figure it out. I want to strip
>> _every_ occurence of these characters out of an incoming string:
>> 
>> (  ) , . and a blank space
>> 
>> So, if the user sends me (in a POST):
>> 
>> (415) 365-2216
>> 
>> I will end up with 4153652216
>> 
>> There must be some regular expression that will do it, but I haven't been
>> able to swing it.
>> 
>> If anyone can offer a solution, I'd be happy to see it.
>
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