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( my $squished_name = $name ) =~ s/\W//g;

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Re^2: Idiom for a regex translation
by cosimo (Hermit) on Apr 22, 2005 at 11:06 UTC
    A slight variation could be: 
      my $name = my $squished_name = 'Rob J Anderson';
  $squished_name =~ s/\W//g;

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