[cyberpac9]

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?

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";
}

[ehymel]

This is more of a regexp question than a perl question. Your expression is failing because parentheses are special characters, so to search for them literally you have to prefix with a backslash:

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

[cyberpac9]

i'll give that a try...thanks