in reply to regexp help

I am not sure what the variation in your data can be. For the example given, the following should to the trick.
my $input = '((113000.00 Nos.) + (250000.00 Nos.) ++ (1) )'; $input =~ s/\(|\)| Nos\.//g; $input =~ s/\+\+/+/g;
That said, in the long run it probaly will help you to get familiar with regular expressions by reading something like perlre