Last night I wrote a little program using the Geo::WeatherNOAA module to get the weather forecast for my region and dump it into MySQL. I was a happy little initiate. But I noticed that the strings that NOAA sends back end with a single equal sign.

I use 

foreach $key (keys %$forecast) {
    $fcast .= "$key: $forecast->{$key}<P>\n";
}

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to make my forecast one string. I'd like to strip that = off though. I could chomp it but the way my loop is written, my string actually ends with ' =

', so that isn't ideal.

Being a good little monk in training, I thought I'd try transliteration. I know how to change case by saying $email =~ tr/A-Z/a-z/; but how can I transliterate an equal sign into either a space (or delete it entirely)? I tried $fcast =~ tr/=//; and $fcast =~ tr/\=//; with no luck. I'm guessing a 'd' should be in there... maybe $fcast =~ tr/\=//d; but I couldn't seem to get a good result.

Any suggestions, oh wise ones?

In reply to Transliteration by cei

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