Monks, I have one question realated to translation.

I have read the following from an online material.

The c option (c is for "complement") translates all characters that are not specified. For example, the statement $string =~ tr/\d/ /c; replaces everything that is not a digit with a space.

But when i tried the following i am getting the following output than what i expected.

$a = 'acvdef431234';
$a =~ tr/\d/ /c;
print "$a";
output:   d
expected output:      431234

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But if i used [0-9] it is working good.

$a = 'acvdef431234';
$a =~ tr/[0-9]/ /c;
print "$a";
output:      431234

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I am in total confusion. Could anyone explain whats going on there.

Regards,
Anniyan
(CREATED in HELL by DEVIL to s|EVILS|GOODS|g in WORLD)

2005-08-24 Retitled by Arunbear, as per Monastery guidelines
Original title: 'tr///c'

In reply to How Do I Use the tr Function's 'c' Option? by anniyan

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