Need to remove the ' marks from the data stored in a variable

[jewel464g]

I have a variable $username it contains data such as 'jewel'
I need it to contain just jewel so anyone got a quick fix for me?

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[TonyGroves]

Sure.[tt]

$username=~s/'//g;[/tt]

 

[stevexff]

If you only want to remove leading and trailing single quotes, then

my $username = "'O'Reilly'";
$username =~ s/^'|'$//g;
print "$username\n";

will do the trick