<div dir="ltr">Thank you all that works just fine, my last step is to create an if statement to only enter to do this if the condition matches.<div><br></div><div><div><br></div><div>if($rU=~&quot;XYZ&quot;) //where xyz is anything not 0-9 * and #</div>

<div>{             </div><div><br></div><div>$rU = $(rU{re.subst,/[^0-9*#]//g});</div><div><br></div>}</div><div><br></div><div>Regards</div><div><br></div><div><br><div class="gmail_quote">On Tue, Feb 12, 2013 at 10:42 AM, Daniel-Constantin Mierla <span dir="ltr">&lt;<a href="mailto:miconda@gmail.com" target="_blank">miconda@gmail.com</a>&gt;</span> wrote:<br>

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        <div>Thanks, what I actually need is keep numbers and * and #
          and remove the rest, something like </div>
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            But I am not sure that ! works for negation.</div>
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    use [^0-9*#] for negation, see:<br>
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    - <a href="http://www.regular-expressions.info/charclass.html" target="_blank">http://www.regular-expressions.info/charclass.html</a><br>
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          <div class="gmail_quote">On Mon, Feb 11, 2013 at 5:43 PM,
            Daniel Tryba <span dir="ltr">&lt;<a href="mailto:daniel@pocos.nl" target="_blank">daniel@pocos.nl</a>&gt;</span>
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              <div>On Monday 11 February 2013 11:24:36 Ali
                Jawad wrote:<br>
                &gt; I am using the below to strip &quot;-&quot; from destination
                numbers, it does work<br>
                &gt; just fine &quot;I replace - with nothing&quot;, what i need
                to do now is to strip all<br>
                &gt; characters except 0-9 * and #. Is there anyway to
                do it using the following<br>
                &gt; configuration part<br>
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              You are using regular expression substitution, so yes this
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              /[^0-9*#]//g<br>
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              Take a look at <a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Regular_expression" target="_blank">http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Regular_expression</a><br>
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