vail~
It's not a silly question. Perl, which takes good advantage of grep-
like regular expressions, has a built-in function to do exactly what
you seek if you first stick the string you want to print "backwards"
into an array:
#! /usr/bin/perl
@backwards = reverse qw / markstanley johndoe janedoe /;
# will print those three strings in their reverse order:
# janedoe, johndoe, markstanley
print "@backwards\n";
$backwards = reverse qw / markstanley johndoe janedoe /;
# will print those three strings as one string, reading from right
to left:
# eodenajeodnhojyelnatskram
print "$backwards\n";
It sounds like you're seekinkg the latter solution.
~Semper Fi, Mac!
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On Aug 20, 2007, at 5:30 AM, After Hours wrote:
I realize this is a silly request, but I've not found an answer --
I need to reverse the type of a selection.
E.g.,
markstanley needs to become yelnatskram
and I have a long list of these. Surely there's an easy fancy grep-
tastic mechanism that escapes me.
(apologies to all you dyslexics)
vail
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