in reply to Tidying up punctuation in a CGI text area

Use the tr/// operator, e.g. 
$textarea =~ tr/ ,;//d;

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Re^2: Tidying up punctuation in a CGI text area
by Zcity (Novice) on Jul 05, 2006 at 19:28 UTC
    the tr/// works when i'm doing the print html but when im posting the text in the log file, it doesnt delete the line spaces. Any other solutions?
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      That tr doesn't include new lines at all. The only reason you see it working in the HTML is because HTML always ignores newlines.


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