Re: Removing unwanted chars from filename.

But you want to include plain ASCII characters that are legal though. No?

$FILENAME =~ tr| A-Za-z0-9\!\$\#\%\&\^\`\@\_\-\+\=\~\.\,\;\(\)\[\]\{\}
+\/\\||cd;
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Re^2: Removing unwanted chars from filename. by hippo (Bishop) on Oct 08, 2022 at 09:25 UTC
No. Our anonymous friend clearly wants to remove all the whitespace and the square brackets, both of which your operation keeps. What's the story with all those backslashes, BTW? 🦛	[reply]
Re^3: Removing unwanted chars from filename. by harangzsolt33 (Chaplain) on Oct 09, 2022 at 17:47 UTC
Well, I know that the tr operator expects a list of characters, but some of them have special meaning such as the minus sign. Where perlop.html talks about the tr operator, it says, `"A character range may be specified with a hyphen, so tr/A-J/0-9/ does + the same replacement as tr/ACEGIBDFHJ/0246813579/. For sed devotees, + y is provided as a synonym for tr. If the SEARCHLIST is delimited by + bracketing quotes, the REPLACEMENTLIST has its own pair of quotes, w +hich may or may not be bracketing quotes, e.g., tr[[A-Z]][[a-z]] or t +r(+\-*/)/ABCD/."` [download] I don't understand what this means. I just know that certain characters have special meanings following the tr operator, so to be on the safe side, I just put a backslash before each.	[reply] [d/l]