John W. Krahn wrote:
Richard Lee wrote:
Rob Dixon wrote:
returns the number of colons found but leaves them untouched. Similarly

  $str =? tr/\t /_/;

this is great!!

use warnings;
use strict;

my $str = 'ab:cd:ef:g:hi::now;';
print $str =~ tr/:// . "\n";
print $str =~ tr/:b/_X/ . "\n";

print "$str\n";


././././././testthis.pl
6
7
aX_cd_ef_g_hi__now;

BTW, what is =?    ? or is that a typo?

$str =? tr/\t /_/;

Typo.


John
thank you!!

I have been putting off learning the meaning behind tr.. but now I finally got to learn them and see that they are very useful

thank you.

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