Sorry about the syntax errors ... Yes, just want to replace all newline characters with a space and since tr does not have g (global) 'option' I was thinking that s/\n/ /g is actually better. Or does tr do a global translate by default? Thanks --- On Mon, 8/3/10, John W. Krahn <jwkr...@shaw.ca> wrote:
From: John W. Krahn <jwkr...@shaw.ca> Subject: Re: tr// versus s///g To: "Perl Beginners" <beginners@perl.org> Date: Monday, 8 March, 2010, 9:50 Tony Esposito wrote: > Does tr/'\n'/' '/ Replace every ' with ' and every "\n" with " " and every ' with '. Should probably just be tr/\n/ /. > do the same as tr/'\n'/' '/g? I assume you mean s/'\n'/' '/g because /g is not a valid option for tr///. That will replace the string "'\n'" with the string "' '" globally but I assume you meant s/\n/ /g. > ( replace newline with space ) > If so, is one preferred over the other? tr/// is usually more efficient (faster) than s///g. Unless you really meant to use the string "'\n'" because tr/// cannot do strings, just characters. John -- The programmer is fighting against the two most destructive forces in the universe: entropy and human stupidity. -- Damian Conway -- To unsubscribe, e-mail: beginners-unsubscr...@perl.org For additional commands, e-mail: beginners-h...@perl.org http://learn.perl.org/
