nwinton@axion.bt.co.uk (Neil Winton) (11/09/90)
Now maybe I missed something, but in the Patch 29--37 blurb there was the
following comment:
The tr/// translation function now understands c, d and s options, just
like the tr program. (Well, almost just like. The d option only
deletes characters that aren't in the replacement string.) The
c complementes the character class to match and the s option squishes
out multiple occurrences of any replacement class characters.
Ok. Sure enough, there is code in the the lexer which recognises
tr/foo/bar/[dcs] as far as I can tell. However, I can't seem to find any
mention of this in the manual and, worse, I can't figure out how/if it
works.
Any and all enlightenment (tr-wise) gratefully accepted. Thanks Larry and
keep up the good work! (By the way, how do you manage to fit in your "real"
work for JPL? Or is this your real work, and JPL really stands for
Just (another) Perl Laboratory ... :-)
Neil
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