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; -- Jeff "japhy" Pinyan japhy@pobox.com http://www.pobox.com/~japhy/ RPI Acacia brother #734 http://www.perlmonks.org/ http://www.cpan.org/ ** Look for "Regular Expressions in Perl" published by Manning, in 2002 ** <stu> what does y/// stand for? <tenderpuss> why, yansliterate of course. [ I'm looking for programming work. If you like my work, let me know. ]Thread Previous