but of course :-)
thanks
allan
Ronald J Kimball wrote:
>
> On Fri, Jul 20, 2001 at 10:08:13PM +0200, allan wrote:
>
> > i know theres more than one way to do it, but i would like a cleaner way.
> > im trying to globally replace singlesqoutes with doubleqoutes and vice
> > versa and the script below does seem to work but its rather an akward
> > way to do it. is there a solution to do this without using those kinds
> > of placeholders?
>
> > $str =~ s/'/some_temp_for_singles/g;
> > $str =~ s/\"/some_temp_for_doubles/g;
> > $str =~ s/some_temp_for_singles/"/g;
> > $str =~ s/some_temp_for_doubles/'/g;
> > print "OK: ", $str;
>
> Use the translation operator, which does character-to-character
> translations:
>
> $str =~ tr/'"/"'/;
>
> Ronald
