[ILUG] [OT]regular expressions

From: Robert Elliott (rde at domain irelands-web.ie)
Date: Fri 27 Aug 1999 - 00:03:58 IST

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Please take pity, one and all, on a poor programmer who's struggling to
wrap his head around regular expressions. My aim is simple enough; to
delete certain punctuation from a line. I thought a substitution would
do this using
$lin =~ s/[\.,\,,\',\-]//
and when it didn't I tried the same thing with a translation; ie
$lin =~ tr/[\.,\,,\',\-]//

neither works; why not? Please?

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