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

How about

$stamp =~ s/.{3}(.{6}).{5}/$1/gosix; #strips first day/year chars
$stamp =~ s/://gosix; #strips the colon
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Of course, I suck at regexes, so this only makes sense in my head...

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Re: Re: How do I use regex to strip out specific characters in a string? by dga (Hermit) on Aug 23, 2001 at 01:34 UTC
RE notes: A few things to take note of since it seems that you may include those qualifiers on all matches which are not always needed or wanted. `s/://gosix` [download] The o says to only compile the RE once which is the case anyway since the pattern is a literal. the s folds lines in the match to one big line making . match \n which in this match a noop. the i makes the match case insensitive which slows down the match. Additionally, the : is not affected by case. the x allows comments to be included in the match none of which have been included. as noted before tr/://d ( or y/://d ) is much more efficient to eliminate or change single characters.	[reply] [d/l]
Re: Re: Re: How do I use regex to strip out specific characters in a string? by tshabet (Beadle) on Aug 23, 2001 at 01:43 UTC
Whooops...thanks dga, I was smoking a little too much of the old crack this afternoon, had gimsox on the mind :-) Thanks for the pointers/clarification.	[reply]