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On 29/3/21 12:36, Felipe Gasper wrote:
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>> On Mar 29, 2021, at 6:30 AM, Salvador Fandiño <sfandino@gmail.com> wrote:
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>> On 27/3/21 8:59, B. Estrade wrote:
>>> On 3/26/21 11:50 PM, Darren Duncan wrote:
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>>> 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.
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>> 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:
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>> $foo =~ s/\s+//bg;
>> $foo =~ s/\s+//bmg;
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> Isn’t that what ^ already does with the /m modifier?
I don't think so...
my $foo = " hello \n world ! ";
say $foo =~ s/^\s+/^/mgr;
say $foo =~ s/(?:^\s+|\s+$)/B/mgr; # equivalent to s/\s+//bmgr
# output:
^hello
^world !
BhelloB
Bworld !B
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