in reply to Removing Single Quote Problem

A better tool for removing characters when you don't need regular expressions is tr///. 
$item->{'description'} =~ tr/\n'//d;

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But your s/// expression should be removing it. Are you sure it's not a "smart quote"?
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Re^2: Removing Single Quote Problem
by halley (Prior) on Feb 10, 2005 at 19:49 UTC
    Watch out for removing newlines willy-nilly. In HTML spans, a newline and a space are equivalent.

    Removingthe newlineswhere thereis noother whitespacewill givesome poorresults.

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