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I need to get the users input for tech support, I have a dialer that will call them back for the support, but the phone number can only be ten digits long. So first I want to get ONLY the numbers, then I can play with it, like if it is 11 digits in length, and the first digit is a 1 then I will have it drop off the one. My problem is that I cannot get it to work, it does not strip off anything.

Does this not work:
$phone =~ s/!(^\d+)//g;

I've searched a few sites, including this one, usually for the terms, "phone number only", "numbers only" "strip everything but numbers" and so forth, but found nothing.
thx,
Richard

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