Re: Re: Re: Replacing a given character starting with the xth occurence in a string

[Anonymous Monk]

You're right of course, my code should have been:

#!/usr/bin/perl -w
my $p = 'Terrence and Philip are sweet';
$p =~ s/e/1/g;
print "$p";

which is a direct copy and paste, but still doesn't give the desired result, I see after re-reading. I'll have to think about that a little harder. Now I see why it wasn't as easy as I thought at first go.

sharle

[davorg]

Also worth noting that for single character translations like this, tr/// is much more efficient than s///.

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