Clean string

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Hi

What would you suggest is the smoothest way of cleaning up a $string,
eg remove any characters that are not:

0-9 a-z : // /

This is to clean various strings from special characters, spaces etc to
make them clean as URLs.

Thanks!
 
J

John W. Krahn

What would you suggest is the smoothest way of cleaning up a $string,
eg remove any characters that are not:

0-9 a-z : // /

This is to clean various strings from special characters, spaces etc to
make them clean as URLs.

$string =~ tr!0-9a-z:/!!cd;


John
 

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