On Apr 2, Vitor Carlos Flausino said: >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/; > $sender=~tr/>/d; You should use lc() instead of tr/// to get lowercase text. ($sender = lc $1) =~ 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 | Thread Next