Erik Lewis wrote:
I have to changes all the spaces in a string to +'s. Is there an easy way to do this. The length of the string and the number of spaces will always be changing.
You are probably looking for tr, see perldoc -f tr. Do you mean chr(32) only, or also other types of space? To for example replace space and tab runs by a single plus, try this: s{ [[:blank:]]+ } {+}xg; which is equivalent to tr { \t} {+}s; Example: perl -wle ' my $var = "abc def \t g"; (my $v1 = $var ) =~ s{ [[:blank:]]+ } {+}xg; (my $v2 = $var ) =~ tr { \t} {+}s; print "<$_>" for $var, $v1, $v2; ' <abc def g> <abc+def+g> <abc+def+g> -- Ruud -- To unsubscribe, e-mail: beginners-unsubscr...@perl.org For additional commands, e-mail: beginners-h...@perl.org http://learn.perl.org/