Thanks to both Peter and register for answering my questions.
-- Drew.
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To: Drew Cohan
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Subject: Re: lc vs. tr
Using Benchmark.pm ... the answer is to use
Using Benchmark.pm ... the answer is to use lc ... if you flip through to the
Perl Cookbook pg 19 or receipe 1.9 you will find that tr is the wrong way to
do changing of case (or at least tr/A-Z/a-z/ since it will miss accented
characteers and so on..)
THe reason you are getting the error is beca
At 11:59 AM 8/14/01 -0400, Drew Cohan wrote:
>1. Any opinions on which is better to convert characters into lowercase
>(efficiency, speed, etc)?
>
>lc vs. tr /A-Z/a-z/ ?
lc can handle locales where upper and lower case isn't the same as A-Z vs a-z.
>2. Is there an option to tell tr to ignore
