You could do it with a mathematical operation based on the ASCII value...course that's not a regex.
-Tom Kinzer -----Original Message----- From: Kevin Old <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Sent: Jan 2, 2004 8:26 AM To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject: Convert letter to phone keypad equivalent Hello everyone, Here's a script I wrote to convert letters into their telephone keypad equivalents....example....A-B to 2, D-F to 3, etc. #!/usr/bin/perl use warnings; use strict; my $cnum = 'SM1550'; $cnum =~ s/[A-C]/2/g; $cnum =~ s/[D-F]/3/g; $cnum =~ s/[G-I]/4/g; $cnum =~ s/[J-L]/5/g; $cnum =~ s/[M-O]/6/g; $cnum =~ s/[P-S]/7/g; $cnum =~ s/[T-V]/8/g; $cnum =~ s/[W-Y]/9/g; print "$cnum\n" This works like a charm, but I wondered if anyone knew of a way to consolidate this into fewer regex's. Like my post earlier this week, I'm not trying to be lazy, just trying to learn other ways of programming/consolidating regexes. Any help is appreciated, Kevin -- Kevin Old <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> -- To unsubscribe, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] For additional commands, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] <http://learn.perl.org/> <http://learn.perl.org/first-response> -- To unsubscribe, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] For additional commands, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] <http://learn.perl.org/> <http://learn.perl.org/first-response>
