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

i'd handle this with the following: 
($stamp = join '_', (split '[/ ]', $stamp)[1,2,4]) =~ tr/://d;

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separate it into multiple lines for clarity if desired.

cheers,

- danboo
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