Jeff 'japhy' Pinyan wrote:
> On Jul 13, Mike Flannigan said: > > >> s/\|/h/g foreach @filecontents; > >> > > > >Works like a charm. I sure appreciate your help. > > > >It's going to take me a few years to figure out (even generally) > >what all these commands are doing. Sure is an intriguing > >language. > > Then here's another operator to learn: you can do the translation of | to > h using the tr/// operator also: > > tr/|/h/ for @filecontents; > > That transliterates ALL |'s to h's, for each string in @filecontents. Yeah, I was trying to figure out the difference from s///. I guess it returns the number of characters replaced (or deleted), as opposed to the number of substitutions made. That's the main difference I see. Mike -- To unsubscribe, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] For additional commands, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
