Hi! any chance someone could give me a small regex to split any non-alphanomeric characters from a string?

You should be able to write it yourself after reading http://perldoc.perl.org/perlintro.html#Regular-expressions subsection http://perldoc.perl.org/perlintro.html#More-complex-regular-expressions it should take about 10 seconds

$ perl -MRegexp::English -le " print Regexp::English->new->non_word_char "
(?^:\W) $ perl -MYAPE::Regex::Explain -le " print YAPE::Regex::Explain->new( q/\W/ )->explain "
The regular expression:

(?-imsx:\W)

matches as follows:

NODE EXPLANATION
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(?-imsx: group, but do not capture (case-sensitive)
(with ^ and $ matching normally) (with . not
matching \n) (matching whitespace and #
normally):
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\W non-word characters (all but a-z, A-Z, 0-
9, _)
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) end of grouping
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