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Re: Re: leaving only [a-zA-Z0-9]

by Happy-the-monk (Canon)
on Mar 21, 2004 at 14:18 UTC ( [id://338454]=note: print w/replies, xml ) Need Help??


in reply to Re: leaving only [a-zA-Z0-9]
in thread leaving only [a-zA-Z0-9]

you can also use $a =~ s/\W//g;

make that   s/[\W_]//g;   to take away the   _   too.

And careful with   locale!   That will not get rid of Umlauts and word characters with accents and such. It will still get rid of special characters though.

Sören

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Re: Re: Re: leaving only [a-zA-Z0-9]
by neniro (Priest) on Mar 21, 2004 at 14:38 UTC
    "That will not get rid of Umlauts and word characters with accents and such." - that are the specialchars I've meant.
    Sorry I should have been more detailed in my explanation.

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