Re: How do I use regex to strip out specific characters in a string?

$stamp =~ s/\w+\s+(\d+)\/(\d+)\/\d+\s(\d+).(.*)/$1_$2_$3$4/;
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Re: Re: How do I use regex to strip out specific characters in a string? by blakem (Monsignor) on Aug 23, 2001 at 00:09 UTC
$stamp =~ s/\w+\s+(\d+)\/(\d+)\/\d+\s(\d+).(.)\/$1_$2_$3$4/;* That wont even compile... youve been tripped up by your leaning toothpicks ('/\/\/\/\'). You can avoid that by changing your regex delimiter... i.e. `s\|\w+\s+(\d+)/(\d+)/\d+\s(\d+).(.*)\|$1_$2_$3$4\|` [download] -Blake	[reply] [d/l]