$Title =~ tr/A-Z/a-z/; #this converts to small caps
$Title =~ s/[0-9]//g; #this removes all numbers
$Title =~ s/[&$\#.!',"(*)\:;]//g; #this removes some other characters
$Title =~ s/ /-/g; #this replaces blank with hyphen

I want all the numbers and characters gone, spaces replaced with hyphen (and possibly 2-3 series of hyphens replaced with one hyphen) and title converted to lower case.

Thanks