Re: [Boston.pm] unformatting phone numbers

[Kenneth Graves]

From: Uri Guttman <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
>          s/\D+//g ;
>
>          tr/0-9//cd ;

One of those "why did Larry do it that way?" questions:
Why can't I use:

           tr/\d//cd ;

(I.e., why don't character classes work in tr?  \s and \S would be
very convenient.)

--kag