Re: Looking for help with the Translate operator

2001-08-23 Thread Jeff 'japhy/Marillion' Pinyan
On Aug 23, Carl W Rogers said: >I don't know if this is possible... But I'm trying to replace the high-hex >symbol for one-half (\xBD) with 1/2 No, you have to use a substitution (s///) for that. tr/// is for character-to-character translations. >$variable =~ tr/[\xBD]/"1/2"/;

Looking for help with the Translate operator

2001-08-23 Thread Carl W Rogers
Good day; I don't know if this is possible... But I'm trying to replace the high-hex symbol for one-half (\xBD) with 1/2 This is what I've tried so far: $variable =~ tr/[\xBD]/"1/2"/; #tr doesn't like this, so I tried... $replacement = "1/2"; $variable =~ tr/[\xBD]/$replacemen