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Re: brian's Guide to Solving Any Perl Problem

by water (Deacon)
on Jul 21, 2004 at 02:48 UTC ( [id://376146]=note: print w/replies, xml ) Need Help??


in reply to brian's Guide to Solving Any Perl Problem

Excellent writeup.

Off topic, I have to comment on introductory regexp: 

s/girlfriend/wife/

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Boy, one can encapsulate a huge amount of life change in 18 chars of perl!

Also it is good you did't have to use the /g modifier there!

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Re^2: brian's Guide to Solving Any Perl Problem
by tinita (Parson) on Nov 07, 2006 at 00:10 UTC
    that can be shortened:
    tr/glrind/wi/d;
    =)
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      Could someone explain what exactly does it do?
      tr/glrind/wi/d
      Thanks.
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        It replaces g with w and l with i, and deletes the characters rind. Therefore, 
        girlfriend
w--if--e--

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        لսႽ† ᥲᥒ⚪⟊Ⴙᘓᖇ Ꮅᘓᖇ⎱ Ⴙᥲ𝇋ƙᘓᖇ
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