On 24-Jun-2003 Sparky Kopetzky wrote:
> I'm translating (hacking) code from Perl to PHP and have two reg exp
> expressions I can't figure out what they do.
>
> 1st: $goodbadnum =~ tr/0-9//cd; I think this one removes any chars that
> are not numbers.
>
Nope. That removes digits '0-9'
$goodbadnum= preg_replace('!\d+!', '', $goodbadnum);
> 2nd: $goodbadnum =~ tr/0-9/x/; I think this one replaces and numbers with
> an 'x'.
>
Yep. that replaces every digit with an 'x'.
$goodbadnum= preg_replace('!\d!', 'x', $goodbadnum);
Regards,
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