I need help with a regular experssion.
I have my DBman set up so that when users browse by Country from a drop down list it displays a graphic relating to that country.
I'm using the search terms as a reference, which are written to %in, and accessed by $in{'Country'}, so I need to format the country string to call the correct graphic.
By the way, this is my first attempt at a regular expression.
Now i've tried to use $in{'Country"} like this,
$graphic = $in{'Country'}=~regular expression;
the expression being the one I havn't worked out yet, but I carn't seem to return the string no matter what expression I try, only a numeral.
How can I return the Country string from $in{'Country'}.
Also if you can help me out with the regular expression. I,ll give you an example.
Say they select - Antigua & Barbuba, what I need the expression to do is,

1. Remove the blank spaces, if there are any - Antigua&Barbuba
2. Remove the & if there is one - AntiguaBarbuba
3. Return the string in lowercase - antiguabarbuba
4. Return say no more then 10 charactors - antiguabar

thanks
Bob

jerry

Jerry, thanks for your help.
This almost works,
but It will only return strings of less than 10 charactors.
if you change > to < it will only print strings of more than 10 charactors.
Is there another way to limit the string to 10 charactors that you know of.

Thanks
Bob

an equal sign does work ==, or =

Perhaps try something like this:

-- Gordon --


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$blah='82:84:70:77';
print chr($_) foreach (split/:/,$blah);

Thanks Gordon, that works.

Bob