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What is I want to allow spaces as well? \s+ does not work.
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Re^6: Filtering unwanted chars from input field
by johngg (Canon) on Dec 19, 2012 at 23:18 UTC

    The left hand side of the tr is not a regular expression. Just include a real space in the character list.

    $ perl -E ' > @data = ( > q{Hello, world!}, > q{te-st%$/*.}, > q{All_of_this_is_OK.}, > q{!@#$%^&*()12345}, > ); > say for map { tr{A-Za-z0-9_. -}{}cd; $_ } @data;' Hello world te-st. All_of_this_is_OK. 12345 $

    Cheers,

    JohnGG