In an earlier thread I was shown how to strip spaces from a field. I also need to strip &,_,- from the output. Dbman does not like characters in the logon field.

Above is what I tried, but it managed to drop all the data from the entry. Is there a syntax I am missing to make it perform all at once?

Thanks Dale

s/*//g essentially tells the regex to wipe everything in the var.
try
$record->[0] =~ s/\*//g;

if you just want to strip all non (alpha)numeric characters you can just use:
$record->[0] =~ s/[^a-zA-Z0-9]//g;

-- Gordon


s/(\d{2})/chr($1)/ge + print if $_ = '8284703280698276687967';

Thanks it worked very well.

Dale