On Wed, Jan 16, 2002 at 09:51:45PM -0500, Tanton Gibbs wrote: > Michael brings up a good point...for this problem, you would probably be > better served by tr > > $stat =~ tr/a-zA-Z//d; > > will delete any alpha character. > > Although split will do the job, I think tr would be a more "idiomatic" > choice, probably more efficient too.
That might work, except one of his requirements is that the numeric data be placed into an array. tr/// is more efficient; I can't really guage its level of idiomicity compared to split. > > On Wed, Jan 16, 2002 at 05:38:56PM -0600, Hewlett Pickens wrote: [snip] > > > "$stat" is a string that has alpha and numeric data in it. > > > I want to remove all of the alpha and put the numeric data into an array. [snip] Michael "Fun with Language" Fowler -- Administrator www.shoebox.net Programmer, System Administrator www.gallanttech.com -- -- To unsubscribe, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] For additional commands, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
