Re: Substituting in the substitution!

$_='ABC AB AB12/83';
tr / \//_/;
print
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Re: Re: Substituting in the substitution! by ambrus (Abbot) on May 06, 2004 at 17:00 UTC
Why's the space before the backslash? Update: ah, I forgot. Perl repeats the last character of the right side of the tr if there are too few. Great.	[reply]
Re^3: Substituting in the substitution! by Roy Johnson (Monsignor) on May 06, 2004 at 19:43 UTC
Because that way both spaces and slashes get translated into underscores. This strips out the brackets as well: `$_='[ABC AB AB12/83]'; tr# /[]#__#d; print;` [download] The PerlMonk `tr///` Advocate	[reply] [d/l]