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> On Mar 29, 2021, at 6:30 AM, Salvador Fandiño <sfandino@gmail.com> wrote: > > On 27/3/21 8:59, B. Estrade wrote: >> On 3/26/21 11:50 PM, Darren Duncan wrote: > >> Can we just add "im" as modifiers to tr/// ? It comes with the handy mnemonic, "tr///im". >> my $new_str = tr/$str/\s/im; >> Everybody wins. tr/// (and versus regexes) is no less confusing to newbies and seasoned Perlers, alike. > > You may be joking, but IMO adding a modifier to tr/// and s/// (say "b"), so that they match just at the beginning and at the end of lines would be a nice addition to the language: > > $foo =~ s/\s+//bg; > $foo =~ s/\s+//bmg; Isn’t that what ^ already does with the /m modifier? -FThread Previous | Thread Next