Re: substitute/regex etc

From: dan@xxxxxxxxxx (Dan)
Date: Mon, 29 May 2006 22:19:43 +0100

""John W. Krahn"" <krahnj@xxxxxxxxx> wrote in message
news:4478C6D0.1030102@xxxxxxxxxxxx

John W. Krahn wrote:

Dan wrote:

how can i substitute, or remove anything that's not an alphanumerical
character in a string?

s/[[:alnum:]]+//g;

Sorry, that should be:

s/[^[:alnum:]]+//g;

John
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ohh clever! ;) that's much easier!
thanks!

dan

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