Hi! I'm trying ro remove the charactes '<' and '>' a string. How do I do it? what is wrong with... $sender=~tr/</d; *sorry* if is a stupid line.... ---------------- from the beginig.... is there any *smart* of puting all characters in lowrecase and at the same time remove the characters I want... if ($line=~ /^.+: SMTP-Accept:.+:(.+):(\d+):\d+:(.+)$/) { ($sender=$1)=~tr/A-Z/a-z/; $sender=~tr/>/d; ... in one step.... Thkx, -vcfThread Next