I am not allowing certain characters to be entered into a specific field, so I check it like this: 
my $_field1 = $in{other_state};
if($_field1 =~ /[^A-Za-Z0-9\.\, ]+/) {
  my $_field1Check = $_field1;
  $_field1Check =~ s/[^A-Za-Z0-9\.\, ]+//g;
}

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Ok, that would then strip those characters that were not in the check I did. How could I get $_field1Check to not have the field that is acceptable, rather have the left the ones that are NOT acceptable so I can show the user?

For instance if they entered:

Some Other - State & Non State
then I would want it to show each of the invalid ones:
-
&
so they would know which characters resulted in the error.

Thanks for any help you can offer.

Rich

In reply to getting stripped characters from string by Anonymous Monk

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