What does trans return in numeric (+) context? On Wednesday, January 27, 2010, Carl Mäsak <cma...@gmail.com> wrote: > How is "character counting" done in Perl 6? > > In Perl 5, it is `scalar tr/CG//` if I want to count the number of Cs > plus the number of Gs in a string. > > S05 describes tr/// in terms of the .trans function, a handsome but > very different beast. Specifically, it doesn't seem to have a "scalar > context", with which one could count things. >
-- Mark J. Reed <markjr...@gmail.com>