Re: Proposal: chop() dropped

[Tom Christiansen]

>tr///l       # Translate only _l_eading characters matching.
>tr///t       # Translate only _t_railing characters matching.

>With "Only leading" I mean translate from start/end until you find a
>character not matching. Then you can do nifty things such as:

>tr/\w//dlt   # Trim all leading & trailing whitespace from $_

tr/// does not admit character classes!

The "leading" thing can be effected with \G.  For example:

    s/\G /0/g;  # change leading blanks to 0

In general, getting folks to write

    s/^\s+//s;
    s/\s+$//s;   # XXX: \z

is a *good* think.

--tom