Well, if it's a single "character", tr likes it. What's the problem? About the only thing that's messy is the use of a slash and dash, and I could probably hork that somehow by always mapping to an octal-ish escape.

I've reread the question three times now, and I don't see how you are defining "character" in any way other than something that tr can wrangle. If so, what's the structure of a "word" then? It's no longer a string, which would be a sequence of "characters" that tr can handle!

-- Randal L. Schwartz, Perl hacker

In reply to Re: Re: Re: Golf: Arbitrary Alphabetical Sorting by merlyn
in thread Golf: Arbitrary Alphabetical Sorting by Masem

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