Is there a simpler way to strip a particular character (carriage return) from a string without going through the string chracter by character in a for...next loop? Note that that there may be one or more characters to strip out.

Dan

The "g" says to replace all occurances of "\n" with " " in the specified string. Intuitive, ain't it?

Thanks!

Dan

Dan,

Try this:

$modified_variable_string = $unmodified_string;
$modified_variable_string =~ s/\n//g;

How this works:
s - search string for
whatever is in between the first two / /
In this case \n
Then between the secon and third / /
will be the character you want to replace with.

I dont know what the g does but it is needed...

Rod

Ahhh...I see said the blind man!

Thanks Bobsie...I learn something new every day...perl is phat but sometimes it just doesn't make very much much sense!

It's like with the searching for a pattern match
$myvar =~ /Contains/i;

What does the i stand for? "Intrigue"...

Rod

/i makes it case-insensitive

Dan

Oh cool...so is it really needed then when doing a pattern search? I mean I tried it a coupla times without and I'd get 500 error...of course other problems were there too but...

I guess I'll just have to try it! Scary to think I've actually written my own progs and I don't know what half this stuff actaully means...even a shopping cart with real-time processing! Now I understand why no-one wants to use it!

Rod

*heh heh heh*

Know what you mean Rod, but you gotta learn somehow, huh? I was just thinking to myself yesterday, I must find a way to make that matching routine in *my* shopping cart case insensitive, and lo! I drop in here and there's my answer before I even get a chance to ask!

I swear if it wasn't for this forum, dbMan, Matt's Script Archive and Selena Sol, I'd still be trying to figure out "Hello World!"!

Long live Gossamer Threads is all I can say!

adam