I'm attempting to restrict the valid values that the user inputs to letters, numbers, spaces, opostrophes, periods and dashes.

I'm trying this subsitution to get rid of any offenders:
s/[^A-Za-z\d\s\-\.\']//g; with a test value of D3E' C@$o*r(-A[].Mick7
that should return D3E' Cor-A.Mick7
but instead is returning
D3E' Cr-A.Mick7

What am I not understanding is what allows it to remove 'o' when I don't want it to? I figure it has something to do with the order in which things are matched and something about the 'o' being surrounded by offending characters, but I'm at a bit of a loss.
Thanks!

UPDATE: *d'oh* I had commented out the use warnings, use strict earlier because of some other issue and forgot to put them back in when I did more work.
Glad to know it was just some simple oversight rather than a complete lack of understanding on my part. Thanks!

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In reply to Quickie Question: RegEx matching problem by hmbscully

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