Good post. Here's what I would do if all I wanted was your last result: 

# note the lower-casing inline
($fus = lc $fus) =~ s/\W+/_/g; #all spans of 1 or more non-words becom
+e 1 '_'
$fus =~ s/^_|_$//g;            #at most one on each end, because of th
+e above

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But, for the poster's question, removing all single-quotes and migrating spaces to _... 

for ($string) {
   s/\s+/_/g;    #convert 1+ spaces to a single '_'
   s/'|^_|_$//g; #trim lead/trail _ and remove single quotes
}

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Which is going a bit further than the direct solution of 

$string =~ tr/\s'/_/d;

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In reply to Re^2: stripping characters from a string by radiantmatrix
in thread stripping characters from a string by Anonymous Monk

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