matching a sentence

[Dave]

Hello,
I've got a series of files that has several sentences i want to kill.
Each contains special symbols () [] spaces, uppercase and lowercase symbols.
I'm trying to use perl to get rid of them, but it's not matching. Any
suggestions?
Thanks.
Dave.

[Joe Smith]

Re: matching a sentence

Dave wrote:[color=blue]
> Hello,
> I've got a series of files that has several sentences i want to kill.
> Each contains special symbols () [] spaces, uppercase and lowercase symbols.
> I'm trying to use perl to get rid of them, but it's not matching. Any
> suggestions?[/color]

Perl regular expressions assign special meaning to () [] {} and such.
You have to quote them (with \ or \Q..\E) to match them literally.
See "perldoc perlretut" for details.
-Joe