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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.

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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;

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