"A. Pagaltzis" schreef:

> (If I had a nickel for every time I've wished Perl had an
> s///-like function that returned a modified copy instead of
> modifying the original string in place.)


Often this is good enough:

  (my $new = $old) =~ s/from/to/;

But if $old is several GBs large, and the s/// would eliminate most of
that, you would use a different approach, like a loop that involves
index() and substr().

-- 
Affijn, Ruud

"Gewoon is een tijger."

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