in reply to how to ignore ' in an array

Are you trying to ignore items in an array that have a single quote, or are you trying to rmeove single quotes from a string? If the first, than in general anything involving "ignoring X from array" means grep. If the second, note that you'll want the /g modifier so the substitution is done more than once. 
  # removing items from array:
  my @values = ( "stuff", "has'some'quotes", "foo" );
  @values = grep( $_ !~ /'/, @values );

  # removing single quotes from a string:
  my $string = "has'some'quotes\nand a second'line'of stuff";
  $string =~ s/'//sg;

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Re^2: how to ignore ' in an array
by inman (Curate) on Aug 03, 2005 at 16:07 UTC
    If you are just removing characters from an array of words, just tr and map. 
    my @data = qw ('hello world' wondered o'brian!);
print "Before: @data\n";
map {tr/'//d} @data;
print "After: @data\n";

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