On Sunday 23 January 2011 07:12:16 Brad wrote: > On 2011-01-21, Jonathan M Davis <jmdavisp...@gmx.com> wrote: > > tr? The name means nothing to me. I haven't a clue where the name comes > > from, so I can't really give a better version of the same name. As it > > is, tr seems fine to me, particularly since tR just seems stupid. It > > should probably get a more descriptive name though. replaceChars? > > Just for everyone's info. > > tr is a standard unix command; been around forever, > and it is a mnemonic for 'translate'. > > It's also in perl. > > tr A-Z a-z # convert to lower-case > Perl: $ph =~ tr/0-9/cd # get only the digits from a phone number entry > field.
Good to know. I know a number of unix/linux commands, but there always seems to be more of them... Not that that's a bad thing. - Jonathan M Davis