Damian Conway wrote:
Adam D. Lopresto wrote:
Really what I've been wishing for was an operator (or whatever) to
let me do an
s// without changing the variable.
I would hope/expect that that's what the subroutine form of C<s> would
do.
That is, it takes a string, a pattern, and a replacement string,
and returns a new string with substitution performed (without affecting
the original string):
print 'He said "$( s($statement,/\.$/,"") )", but we didn't believe
him.';
That seems a bit obfuscated; is there any chance the subroutine form could
be called C<subst> or C<substitute>?
