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All accents should be removed too

You mean that you want the accented characters removed? Or just the accents from the accented characters?

If the latter, you'll need to explain the source of the strings and probably get into messing with encodings as a regex won't (easily) do that.

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Re^2: Remove all non alphanumeric characters excluding space, underscore and minus sign
by CountZero (Bishop) on Feb 13, 2012 at 13:25 UTC
    Text::Unidecode can remove the accents, but leave the basic character in place. First run the undidecode unidecode function on your string and then apply the regex.

    Update: fixed a typo. Thanks BrowserUK.

    CountZero

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      Will it work on Extended ANSI codepages? Or only Unicoded input?

      Plus, it might be better to tell the OP rather than me since he's the one looking for it.

      (ps. Is undidecoding, extracting that which makes Diddy men what they are, from their DNA? :)

      With the rise and rise of 'Social' network sites: 'Computers are making people easier to use everyday'
      Examine what is said, not who speaks -- Silence betokens consent -- Love the truth but pardon error.
      "Science is about questioning the status quo. Questioning authority".
      In the absence of evidence, opinion is indistinguishable from prejudice.

      The start of some sanity?
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        The docs of Text::Unidecode say: "It often happens that you have non-Roman text data in Unicode" and "If you get really implausible nonsense out of unidecode(...), make sure that the input data really is a utf8 string."

        So out of caution I add "use utf8;" to my scripts using Text::Unidecode.

        CountZero

        A program should be light and agile, its subroutines connected like a string of pearls. The spirit and intent of the program should be retained throughout. There should be neither too little or too much, neither needless loops nor useless variables, neither lack of structure nor overwhelming rigidity." - The Tao of Programming, 4.1 - Geoffrey James

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      CountZero, thanks a lot! you made my day :-)
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