Re^3: Remove all non alphanumeric characters excluding space, underscore and minus sign

~~s/[^a-zA-Z0-9 _-()]//g~~ s/[^a-zA-Z0-9 _()-]//g

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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Re^4: Remove all non alphanumeric characters excluding space, underscore and minus sign by ikkeniet (Acolyte) on Feb 13, 2012 at 13:22 UTC
Tried that too but throws an error: Invalid [] range "_-(" in regex; marked by HERE in m/^a-zA-Z0-9 _-( HERE )/	[reply]
Re^5: Remove all non alphanumeric characters excluding space, underscore and minus sign by CountZero (Bishop) on Feb 13, 2012 at 13:29 UTC
Indeed, silly me. It should be `s/[^a-zA-Z0-9 _()-]//g` 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	[reply] [d/l]