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John W. Krahn wrote: > Richard Lee wrote: >> Rob Dixon wrote: >>> >>> returns the number of colons found but leaves them untouched. Similarly >>> >>> $str =? tr/\t /_/; >> >> this is great!! >> >> use warnings; >> use strict; >> >> my $str = 'ab:cd:ef:g:hi::now;'; >> print $str =~ tr/:// . "\n"; >> print $str =~ tr/:b/_X/ . "\n"; >> >> print "$str\n"; >> >> >> ././././././testthis.pl >> 6 >> 7 >> aX_cd_ef_g_hi__now; >> >> BTW, what is =? ? or is that a typo? >> >> $str =? tr/\t /_/; > > Typo. > > > John thank you!! I have been putting off learning the meaning behind tr.. but now I finally got to learn them and see that they are very useful thank you.Thread Previous