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Re: data cleaning - removing text from variables

by Ryszard (Priest)
on May 21, 2004 at 07:11 UTC ( [id://355199]=note: print w/replies, xml ) Need Help??


in reply to data cleaning - removing text from variables

Regex's are your friend. 
#perl -e '$_="1aa23.4a";$_=~s/[a-f]//gi;print "$_\n"'
123.4
#

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