Espen S. Ore writes: |I have tried to get tr to work as in e.g. |$something =~ tr/0-9A-Za-z \n//c It might help if you said what you're trying to do. The above (and every other tr/// I've tried) works just fine in MacPerl, although the above doesn't do anything, so its effect may be hard to see. :-) I suggest reading the tr/// section of perlop, and if you still can't get tr/// to do what you want, send another message to the list, this time including what you're trying to do as well as what you've tried. Brian