in reply to Phonetic Translation

Further to Paladin's fine answer, I'd just add a couple of points...

You'll probably want to lc either $line or each split character, unless you want to distinguish between upper and lower, in which case (forgive the pun) you'll need something like 'a'=>alpha, 'A'=>ALPHA in your lookup hash.

Whitespace may also be confusing to the user - certain rendering systems (HTML for instance) ignore multiple spaces, so you may want to add something like ' '=>'space'.

Cheers, Ben.

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Re: Re: Phonetic Translation
by tcf22 (Priest) on Aug 27, 2003 at 20:07 UTC
    If the case matters, you could use this 
    my %trans = (
   a => "alpha",
   b => "beta",
   ...
   z => "zulu"
);

my $line = 'AbZaBz';

foreach (split //, $line) {
    if (exists $trans{lc($_)}) {
        print (($_ ne lc($_)) ? uc($trans{lc($_)}) : $trans{$_});
    } else {
        print $_;
    }
    print ' ';
}

__OUTPUT__
ALPHA beta ZULU alpha BETA zulu

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