--- Stephen Reppucci <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > From 'perldoc perlop': > > If the REPLACEMENTLIST is > empty, the SEARCHLIST is replicated. This latter > is useful for counting characters in a class or > for squashing character sequences in a class. > > As Ronald suggested, use the /d qualifier.
Right -- I feel kind of foolish because I read that page of "Programming Perl" looking for a /g qualifier (I was wondering if that would change the results), but instead of reading what was there I just saw that there was no /g. If I had actually looked at what /d does, then I would never have had to ask... sorry all and thanks for pointing the way. > (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). Erik __________________________________________________ Do you Yahoo!? Faith Hill - Exclusive Performances, Videos & More http://faith.yahoo.com _______________________________________________ Boston-pm mailing list [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://mail.pm.org/mailman/listinfo/boston-pm
