On Wed, 11 Jul 2001, Fernando wrote:
> I have a credit card number that I want to change to email a reciept to the
>customer. This is that I want:
>
> I have this number: e.j. 1111 8578 596 8552
> I want to convert all the number to "x" like that xxxx xxx xxxx
>
> when I use this:
>
> $number = "1111 8578 596 8552";
> $number =~ s/\d+/x/g;
You probably should use the tr/// operator, as it is more suited for doing
one to one mapping of characters than substitutions:
my $num = "1111 8578 596 8552";
$num =~ tr/[0-9]/x/;
print "$num\n";
-- Brett
http://www.chapelperilous.net/btfwk/
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