>>>>> "KK" == Karl Kaufman <krk...@comcast.net> writes:
KK> Well, to be precise, your conceptual logic was fine; the KK> implementation was flawed. As several have pointed out, you KK> weren't replacing the comma with a _space_ *character*, but with KK> the RegExp _whitespace_ *character class*. to be really precise, there was no character class in that code. he was replacing the comma with the letter s. the right side of s/// is normally just a double quoted string and \s becomes just an s. this shows it: perl -le '$x = "a,b" ; $x =~ s/,/\s/; print $x' asb -- Uri Guttman ------ u...@stemsystems.com -------- http://www.sysarch.com -- ----- Perl Code Review , Architecture, Development, Training, Support ------ --------- Gourmet Hot Cocoa Mix ---- http://bestfriendscocoa.com --------- -- To unsubscribe, e-mail: beginners-unsubscr...@perl.org For additional commands, e-mail: beginners-h...@perl.org http://learn.perl.org/
