--- Jeff 'japhy/Marillion' Pinyan <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> On Sep 7, [EMAIL PROTECTED] said:
>
> >$somestring =~ s!>!)!g;
>
> Then I would suggest tr/>/!/, which is a "better" way to write such
> substitutions, for certain values of "better".
Ah I am familiar with the tr/// route - I sho
On Sep 7, Jeff 'japhy/Marillion' Pinyan said:
>On Sep 7, [EMAIL PROTECTED] said:
>
>>$somestring =~ s!>!)!g;
>
>Then I would suggest tr/>/!/, which is a "better" way to write such
>substitutions, for certain values of "better".
My bad. I really meant tr/>/)/.
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Jeff "japhy" Pinyan [EMAI
On Sep 7, [EMAIL PROTECTED] said:
>$somestring =~ s!>!)!g;
Then I would suggest tr/>/!/, which is a "better" way to write such
substitutions, for certain values of "better".
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Jeff "japhy" Pinyan [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://www.pobox.com/~japhy/
RPI Acacia brother #734 http://www.per
why not just do
$somestring =~ s!>!)!g;
that will replace every ">" with a ")". This way you do not even have to
worry about $stringlength.
> -Original Message-
> From: Dan [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]]
> Sent: Friday, September 07, 2001 11:15 AM
> To: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
> Subject: general
On Sep 7, Dan said:
>If I have a string with say a number of '>>' in it which may be
>variable in length and I wish to write a regexp to match and replace it
>with the equivalent number of ')'s [ie would become ]
There's a very clever solution to this in "Effective Perl
Programming"
