remove double quotes from a string

[helpcomm]

Hi,

say i have a variable $str as follows

$str = "\"hello\"";

so the content of str will be "hello" with the double quotes.

What shoud i do to remove the quotes?

Thanks

[dragle]

Try:
$str =~ tr/"//d;
and see perldoc perlop (http://perldoc.perl.org/perlop.html#tr%2fSEARCHLIST%2fREPLACEMENTLIST%2fcds).

You can also use the substitution operator:
$str =~ s/"//g;
(also see perlop (http://perldoc.perl.org/perlop.html#s%2fPATTERN%2fREPLACEMENT%2fmsixpogce)), but in this case it will most likely be much slower.

Cheers!