On 1 Dec 2007, at 00:33, Joel Rees wrote:
This is probably the wrong list for this question, but is anyone
willing to give me a clue why
$line =~ tr/+/ /;
would clip out the lead bytes of a shift-JIS string in a cgi script?
That's a badly-formed regular expression. "+" means "one or more of
what was just expressed", but you haven't expressed anything so far,
so god knows what it will match.
I think you meant to say ".+", but that will just delete the whole
string in this context. What did you want to do?
