Hello ps2931,

In the spirit of TMTOWTDI, here’s a variation on AnomalousMonk’s solution, using tr/// instead of m//:

#! perl
use strict;
use warnings;

while (<DATA>)
{
    chomp;
    my $invalid = tr{- _,:./"0-9a-zA-Z}{}c;
    print "Found $invalid invalid characters in:\n$_\n" if $invalid;
}

__DATA__
This line is OK.

2749 "CQWERC20F+XZIAQAAAQjLiDI9sNc=", "1","ds_uid","CWER1Y1mHZIAQAA8di
+wRHfuwrM=","2012-10-14 18:41:44.429","2012-10-14 18:41:44.572","1975-
+10-10 00:00:00.000","7307 mg rd","","naasik","NK","44026","IN","44063
+59999","","","","DEFAULT","","","AABBCCXX","","Qqwwee<feff>","","qqww
+ee@yahoo.com","0","YOPANEL","","false","en","","","","","","","","","
+","","","","","","","",""

This line is OK too: abc123-_,:./"

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Output:

22:35 >perl 1012_SoPW.pl
Found 6 invalid characters in:
2749 "CQWERC20F+XZIAQAAAQjLiDI9sNc=", "1","ds_uid","CWER1Y1mHZIAQAA8di
+wRHfuwrM=","2012-10-14 18:41:44.429","2012-10-14 18:41:44.572","1975-
+10-10 00:00:00.000","7307 mg rd","","naasik","NK","44026","IN","44063
+59999","","","","DEFAULT","","","AABBCCXX","","Qqwwee<feff>","","qqww
+ee@yahoo.com","0","YOPANEL","","false","en","","","","","","","","","
+","","","","","","","",""

22:35 >

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Hope that helps,

Athanasius <°(((>< contra mundum Iustus alius egestas vitae, eros Piratica,

In reply to Re: Need regex to filter out unwanted rows by Athanasius
in thread Need regex to filter out unwanted rows by ps2931

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