On Tue, Oct 21, 2008 at 8:30 AM, David Dooling
<[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> I don't think any one addresses the perl oddity.  From perlop(1)
>
>   Note that "tr" does not do regular expression character classes
>   such as "\d" or "[:lower:]". The <tr> operator is not
>   equivalent to the tr(1) utility.  If you want to map strings between
>   lower/upper cases, see "lc" in perlfunc and "uc" in perlfunc,
>   and in general consider using the "s" operator if you need regular
>   expressions.

Ah, that explains it.  Thanks, David. - Robert

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