i am new to perl (i should say, i've never even looked at a perl script before today), but i do have a PROGRAMMING background...

so, we have a script that, among other things, takes a .doc file and changes the extension to .htm...there is an issue, however, with parentheses...so i wanted to added a little snippet that finds the parentheses and removes them...the piece i added apparently does not WORK...

what do you think i should change?
Code: [Select]sub convertWordDoc {
    my $htmDoc, $tempDir, $cmdLine;
    $htmDoc = $File::Find::name;
    $htmDoc =~ s/\.doc$/\.htm/i;

###################################
#
#  Added to SEARCH and remove ( and )
#
###################################

$htmDoc =~ s/[()]//g;

###################################
#
#  End addition
#
###################################
   
    convert2htm($File::Find::name, DELETE_SOURCE_DOC, DELETE_FILES_DIR);
    -e $htmDoc or die "word2htm failed on $File::Find::name";
}
think i may have it...gotta test it though:

$htmDoc =~ s/[\(\)]//g;SORRY there aren't too many Perl whizkids around here..... no prob...new here and the last question i had i got a great response, so i figured i'd try this one too...Perl wizard here. Probably have figured this out by now or moved on but just in case I thought I'd offer my suggestion since I work with Perl every day and love Perl questions!

Your suggested regex should definitely locate and replace any parentheses. Always need to escape (use backslash) for special characters such as these. Otherwise it's going to try to use them as a function such as in this case capturing whatever is in-between the parentheses.

QUOTE

$htmDoc =~ s/[\(\)]//g;