> so from your illustration I would presume that > the '/c' option is there so that perl can say > > "my what a facinating transliteration."
That is my question exactly.... /c : Hello pattern1, you look mighty nice today in all your cryptic obscurity. Actually this goes back to my initial question about this: $name =~ tr/a-zA-Z0-9-_ .,:;'&$#@!*()?-//cd; What is happening here exactly and what precisely does the /c do in this statement? I've had a couple of answers that I do not understand and thus far I've been told that /c "complements" the SearchPattern. OK So my question is (drumroll) : Do I take it to mean that /c also adds the negative values of the given SearchPattern to the SearchPattern? Otherwise, what is the "complement of /a-z/ if not /-(a-z)/ ? Thanks, Mark -- To unsubscribe, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] For additional commands, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED]