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In this case, you should read Using character classes in perlretut. In particular, you are interested in the set of all characters that are not apostrophes. This is usually expressed as [^']. You will also need to use Quantifiers to specify a character count: in this case *, which gives you zero or more occurrences.

#11929 First ask yourself `How would I do this without a computer?' Then have the computer do it the same way.

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