How do i escape a '/' character when using tr?

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I'm using tr to count the '/' characters in a string...unfortunately, I can't escape it with a '\' (perl barfs). Any ideas?

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Re: How do i escape a '/' character when using tr? by merlyn (Sage) on Aug 21, 2000 at 20:43 UTC
That's odd. `$count_slash = tr/\///;` [download] works just fine in my copy of Perl. Or you can use an alternate delimiter: `$count_slash = tr#/##;` [download]	[reply] [d/l] [select]