I want to replace all the o's in a string with x's or y's and all the a's in a string with u's or v's.
Example: given string "foobar", the output would be this list of strings fxxbur (change both o's to x, and the a to u) fxxbvr (both o's to x, a to y) fxybur (first o to x, second to y, and the a to u) fxybvr (and so on...) fyxbur fyxbvr fyybur fyybvr What's the best subroutine to do this? I've got some ideas, but they're all fairly complex. Reason I'm doing this (if anyone cares): I want to ASCII-ify the geonames alternatenames table using iso-8859-1. Most of the translations are obvious: s/[\xc0-\xc5]/A/sg; s/\xc6/AE/sg; s/\xc7/C/sg; s/[\xc8-\xcb]/E/sg; s/[\xcc-\xcf]/I/sg; s/\xd1/N/sg; s/[\xd2-\xd6\xd8]/O/sg; s/[\xd9-\xdc]/U/sg; s/\xdd/Y/sg; s/[\xe0-\xe5]/a/sg; s/\xe6/ae/sg; s/\xe7/c/sg; s/[\xe8-\xeb]/e/sg; s/[\xec-\xef]/i/sg; s/\xf1/n/sg; s/[\xf2-\xf6\xf8]/o/sg; s/[\xf9-\xfc]/u/sg; s/[\xfd\xff]/y/sg; but "eth" can be translated as "d" or "dh", "thorn" can be translated as "th" or "y", and "sharp s" can be translated as "ss" or "sz". In all cases, I want to use *both* translations to have the largest possible ASCII-ification. -- We're just a Bunch Of Regular Guys, a collective group that's trying to understand and assimilate technology. We feel that resistance to new ideas and technology is unwise and ultimately futile. -- To unsubscribe, e-mail: beginners-unsubscr...@perl.org For additional commands, e-mail: beginners-h...@perl.org http://learn.perl.org/
