Re^2: Matching or masking specific characters in an array of strings

You are going to get one extra hyphen because

print ( $common_letters[ $_ ] || "-" ) for ( 0 .. length $reference );
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should be

print ( $common_letters[ $_ ] || "-" ) for ( 0 .. length( $reference )
+ - 1 );
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Cheers,

JohnGG

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Re^3: Matching or masking specific characters in an array of strings by pat_mc (Pilgrim) on Dec 25, 2008 at 22:13 UTC
Thanks for pointing this out, johngg! You are, of course, perfectly right ... I apologise for overlooking this detail. As regards the overall approach of my code, however, I am glad to report that this correction changes nothing.	[reply]