Re: how to shorten this code ? x occur how many times in variable

Richard Lee wrote:
> Rob Dixon wrote:
>>  
>> returns the number of colons found but leaves them untouched. Similarly
>>
>>   $str =? tr/\t /_/;
> 
> this is great!!
> 
> use warnings;
> use strict;
> 
> my $str = 'ab:cd:ef:g:hi::now;';
> print $str =~ tr/:// . "\n";
> print $str =~ tr/:b/_X/ . "\n";
> 
> print "$str\n";
> 
> 
> ././././././testthis.pl
> 6
> 7
> aX_cd_ef_g_hi__now;
> 
> BTW, what is =?    ? or is that a typo?
> 
> $str =? tr/\t /_/;

Typo.


John
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