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What should I be using instead of TR?

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Re^3: Removing characters
by moritz (Cardinal) on Jan 22, 2008 at 15:02 UTC
    You can use tr, but you have to discard its return value. 
    my $str = "ab c,d.e";
$str =~ tr/ ,.//;
# here $str is "abcde"

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    So you need to use the modified string after the tr. And don't try to stuff it all in one line ;-)

    (Update: fixed match operator)

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