Removing GBP symbol from a string

[tony_britannia]

I have some code to adjust data entered into a web page template to use it in a javascript function. This, amongst other things, will remove start and end spaces, replace the inter-word spaces with hyphens, etc etc.

However I am struggling to remove pound (£) signs.

Is there something different that I need to do for currency symbols?

Any help would be appreciated!

Thanks

Tony

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Here is the code for the other RegExs:
$idref =~ s/\'//g; # remove '
$idref =~ s/\&amp\; //g; # remove &amp;<space>
$idref =~ s/\& //g; # remove &<space>
$idref =~ s/\,//g; # remove ,
$idref =~ s/\"//g; # remove "
$idref =~ s/\-//g; # remove -
$idref =~ s/\?//g; # remove ?
$idref =~ s/ /_/g; # replace spaces with _

[tony_britannia]

I found a response for anyone having the same issue.

The following RegEx removes all non-word characters:

=~ s/[^\w]//g;

[Sixtease]

This
=~ s/\W//g;
does too and is one more touch simpler. :-)