Uri Guttman wrote:
"sw" == shawn wilson<ag4ve...@gmail.com> writes:sw> my $data; sw> while ( my $line =<FILE> ) { sw> chomp ($line); sw> my @word = split / /, $line; sw> my $count = 0; sw> foreach my $aword ( @word ) { sw> $aword =~ tr/^[\-a-zA-Z]//; that isn't a good tr call/ it will not delete [] chars. those are not metachars in tr. tr is NOT a regex!
It will not delete *any* characters. It will replace '^' with '^' and '[' with '[' and '-' with '-' and 'a' through 'z' with 'a' through 'z' and 'A' through 'Z' with 'A' through 'Z' and ']' with ']'.
John -- Any intelligent fool can make things bigger and more complex... It takes a touch of genius - and a lot of courage to move in the opposite direction. -- Albert Einstein -- To unsubscribe, e-mail: beginners-unsubscr...@perl.org For additional commands, e-mail: beginners-h...@perl.org http://learn.perl.org/
