On Wed, 28 Apr 2004 10:42:01 +0530 "Sumanth Sharma" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> Can you help me figure out why need tr/// when you have s/// and > Vice versa ( NO, s/// is more powerful?). Well I would say that the way they operate is different. tr/// looks at each character and replaces it eg, tr/aeiou/-/ replaces all vowels with a - s/// looks for a pattern and replaces that pattern eg s/aeiou/-/ replace any pattern of aeiou with a - Try this #!/usr/bin/perl -w use strict; my $word='aeiou'; $word =~tr/aeiou/-/; print "translated word is $word\n"; $word='aeiou'; $word =~s/aeiou/-/; print "substituted word is $word\n"; ==================================== translated word is ----- substituted word is - Owen -- To unsubscribe, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] For additional commands, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] <http://learn.perl.org/> <http://learn.perl.org/first-response>
