Re: Re (tilly) 2: Fore!!! (was The Perl Review)

Could someone brief me on the y/// syntax? I took a look in man perlre, and tried stepping through it in the debugger - both were futile.

-jackdied

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Re (tilly) 4 (y): Fore!!! (was The Perl Review) by tilly (Archbishop) on Feb 02, 2002 at 14:54 UTC
y is a function which is explained in perlop. What it does is substitutes for any character in one list, the corresponding charater on another list. What I did was use ord and chr to figure out what the ASCII representation of 9 was, and what came right after that. Then I used tr to move the range A-Z so that they came right after the range 0-9, so that I could convert any digit into a number just by taking ord and subtracting off the ord of 0.	[reply]

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Re (tilly) 4 (y): Fore!!! (was The Perl Review)
by tilly (Archbishop) on Feb 02, 2002 at 14:54 UTC

perlop

What I did was use ord and chr to figure out what the ASCII representation of 9 was, and what came right after that. Then I used tr to move the range A-Z so that they came right after the range 0-9, so that I could convert any digit into a number just by taking ord and subtracting off the ord of 0.

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