On Jul 13, Mike Flannigan said: >> tr/|/h/ for @filecontents; >> >> That transliterates ALL |'s to h's, for each string in @filecontents. > >Yeah, I was trying to figure out the difference from s///. I guess it >returns the number of characters replaced (or deleted), as opposed >to the number of substitutions made. That's the main difference I >see.
tr/// is only for character-to-character translations. It doesn't work for strings: s/foo/bar/g and tr/foo/bar/ do not work the same way. tr/// is ONLY for characters. -- Jeff "japhy" Pinyan [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://www.pobox.com/~japhy/ RPI Acacia brother #734 http://www.perlmonks.org/ http://www.cpan.org/ <stu> what does y/// stand for? <tenderpuss> why, yansliterate of course. [ I'm looking for programming work. If you like my work, let me know. ] -- To unsubscribe, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] For additional commands, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
