I need to remove all instances of a particular string.

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Re: I need to remove all instances of a particular string. by dvergin (Monsignor) on Aug 03, 2001 at 02:58 UTC
`$somestring =~ s#<TR><TD>&nbsp;</TD></TR>##g;` You might want to do some reading up on regexes: perlman:perlre. Update: Oops! Brain swapped out. Slashes in the regex don't mix well with slashes as delimiters. I substituted #'s for a more felicitous result. Thanks buckaduck and runrig... dvergin considers reading perlman:perlre himself.	[reply] [d/l]
Re: Re: I need to remove all instances of a particular string. by runrig (Abbot) on Aug 03, 2001 at 03:00 UTC
Um, those '/' characters are going to cause you trouble, you could use a different s/// delimiter, but probably better just to use quotemeta on the string first: `my $qmstring = quotemeta('<TR>...etc.'); $somestring =~ s/$qmstring//g;` [download]	[reply] [d/l]