Re: remove multiple characters

[bart]

First of all, don't use "|" as a boolean operator. It is not, it is a bitwise operator. Use "||" instead, for booleans.

And second... why aren't you trying to match just 'b', 'z' or 'y' characters, instead of absolutely anything? That's what regular expressions are for!

$str =~ s/([bzy])//g;

p.s. The capturing parens aren't necessary, but perhaps you may have a use for them yet, so I let them in... But, for this code snippet, you can leave them out. The replacement will probably be faster for it.

$str =~ s/[bzy]//g;