On Wed, Jan 27, 2010 at 1:19 PM, Carl Mäsak <cma...@gmail.com> wrote:
> Mark (>), Carl (>>):
>>> S05 describes tr/// in terms of the .trans function, a handsome but
>>> very different beast. Specifically, it doesn't seem to have a "scalar
>>> context", with which one could count things.
>>
>> What does trans return in numeric (+) context?
>
> As spec'd, it returns the numification of the string resulting from
> the substitution, I guess.
>
> // Carl
>
$str.comb(/C|G/).join('').chars might do it. It's maybe not quite as elegant...
Matt
