Re^2: strip text from a string

s/(\s*'[^']*?')//g;

I'm not sure why you enclose the pattern in parentheses as I don't think a capture is required. Also, you don't need the non-greedy quantifier when using negated character classes, that's the whole point of using them as it means you can avoid the commonly seen .*? pattern.

I hope this is of interest.

Cheers,

JohnGG

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Re^3: strip text from a string
by Athanasius (Archbishop) on Sep 11, 2014 at 15:45 UTC

Hello johngg,

Both excellent points! Thanks for the corrections:

 1:41 >perl -wE "my $s= qq[Can you please remove 'me' as that me is no
+ longer required, but this 'X' should go as well]; $s =~ s/\s*'[^']*'
+//g; say qq[\n$s];"

Can you please remove as that me is no longer required, but this shoul
+d go as well

 1:41 >
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Cheers,

Athanasius <°(((>< contra mundum Iustus alius egestas vitae, eros Piratica,

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Re^3: strip text from a string
by KalaMonkey (Initiate) on Sep 11, 2014 at 15:31 UTC

That did the trick thanks!

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