in reply to RegEx ignoring intervening characters?

Am I crazy or would it be sensible just to do something like 
$str =~ tr/A-Z//cd

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and then examine what's left? I don't know how to do benchmarking but rather than do a complex regex with lots of stars in it, why not turn the problem inside out?

($_='kkvvttuu bbooppuuiiffss qqffssmm iibbddllffss')
=~y~b-v~a-z~s; print

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Re^2: RegEx ignoring intervening characters?
by mdunnbass (Monk) on Feb 01, 2007 at 15:39 UTC
    It would be sensible, except for the fact that I need to keep the original text intact.
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