Re: [Boston.pm] unformatting phone numbers

[David H. Adler]

On Fri, Feb 02, 2001 at 01:59:49PM -0500, Chris Nandor wrote:

> to "why not" is that metacharacters are for regexes, and tr/// does not use
> regexes.  It only looks like it does.

Despite what the indicies of some books (e.g. perl in a nutshell) seem
to think...  [grumble grumble]

Yes, this is a pet peeve of mine, why do you ask? :-/

dha

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