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Re: Remove a character from a string

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From:
Jeff 'japhy' Pinyan
Date:
April 2, 2002 09:55
Subject:
Re: Remove a character from a string
Message ID:
Pine.GSO.4.21.0204021254230.6722-100000@crusoe.crusoe.net
On Apr 2, Vitor Carlos Flausino said:

>I'm trying ro remove the charactes '<' and '>' a string. How do I do it?
>
>$sender=~tr/</d;

It's not the right syntax.  You need

  tr/<//d;

And you can do both < and > at the same time:

  tr/<>//d;

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