Re: The translate operator (was Re: [MacPerl] regex help)

[Matthias Neeracher <neeri@iis.ee.ethz.ch>]

In article <199911282150.NAA08782@pacific.telebyte.com>, Brian McNett <webmaster@mycoinfo.com> writes:

> Paul Schinder, <schinder@pobox.com> wrote:
>> As a Calvin and Hobbes fan, I'd lean towards "transmorgrify" myself.

> vt [origin unknown] to change or alter greatly and often with grotesque 
> or humorous effect.

> Can someone show a use of tr// to humorous or grotesque effect? ;-)

This is too easy :-)

sub fudd {
   my($x) = $_[0];
   $x =~ tr/r/w/;
   $x;
}

print fudd("Be very, very quiet! I'm hunting rabbit\!n"); 

Matthias

-- 
Matthias Neeracher   <neeri@iis.ee.ethz.ch>   http://www.iis.ee.ethz.ch/~neeri
    "Let's make that big, evil *canadian* rabbits... on crack!" -- _Suck_

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