On Dec 13, Ryan Fischer said: >> i wouldn't call them counter intuitive as they are clearly documented >> and make it more flexible than your single use approach would. > >To each his own. Not everyone has the time to dink around and pat each >other on the back at obscure usages and abuses of functions that have >other purposes. ;)
I'm afraid you've said that to the wrong crew (re: the golf game we played at the beginning of the month). And it's not an obscure use NOR an abuse of the function. The fact that tr/a-z// replaces the empty replacement list with a-z is SPECIFICALLY documented, and the use of this for counting characters is SPECIFICALLY suggested. -- 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.
