On Tue, 8 Oct 2002, Erik Price wrote:

> --- Stephen Reppucci <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> > (Am I the only one who rolls their eyes and coughs when I come
> > across something like this in someone else's code? :
> >
> >    s/([^a-zA-Z])//g;
>
> I don't remember posting it like that... if I did then it was a typo
> b/c the code doesn't try to capture the removed data (that's why I'm
> using tr/// in the first place).

Oops, my bad -- I wasn't trying to attribute that code to anything
you posted, that was just a tangential remark about a usage I often
come across in code written by newbies.

<Steve>

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