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

[Happy-the-monk]

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

[neniro]

"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.