Thank's for the response. It works; of course!, but why? I guess I'm what you might call an intermediate programmer and I like to understand what's going on; so let me ask a couple of questions.

  1. I've never seen "quotemeta(shift)". I use local($from,$to,$opts) = @_;
  2. What is ($opts=shift || "")=~tr/cdsCDS/cdscds/d; doing?

  3. Help me understand how this works
    my $tr=eval "sub { (defined \$_[0] ? \$_[0] : $_)
                               =~tr/$from/$to/$opts}";

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  4. What happens if the ( die "$@" if $@ ) is simply left out and the eval fails.

In reply to Re: Re: Re^2: Transliteration!!! by Anonymous Monk
in thread How to eval a tr/// (was: Transliteration!!!) by Anonymous Monk

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