On Dec 13, Ryan Fischer said: >Bleh. You learn something new every day. But, if anything, I'd say >that's a glaring bug and not a feature. translations are supposed to >replace one character with another. If no character is specified, the >most intuitive thing to happen is an omission. What happens now is >incredibly counter-intuitive.
And incredibly documented. From perlop: If the REPLACEMENTLIST is empty, the SEARCHLIST is replicated. This latter is useful for counting characters in a class or for squashing character sequences in a class. And this is how the tr(1) utility works. -- Jeff "japhy" Pinyan [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://www.pobox.com/~japhy/ RPI Acacia brother #734 http://www.perlmonks.org/ http://www.cpan.org/ ** Look for "Regular Expressions in Perl" published by Manning, in 2002 ** <stu> what does y/// stand for? <tenderpuss> why, yansliterate of course.
