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From: rbj@uunet.UU.NET (Root Boy Jim)
Newsgroups: comp.lang.perl
Subject: Re: pack function, uuencode and xxencode
Keywords: pack uuencode xxencode
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Date: 25 Jan 91 00:07:55 GMT
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In article <11169@jpl-devvax.JPL.NASA.GOV> lwall@jpl-devvax.JPL.NASA.GOV (Larry Wall) writes:
>In article <4725@ruuinf.cs.ruu.nl> piet@cs.ruu.nl (Piet van Oostrum) writes:
>: It would be more useful if the uuen/decode operation had an encoding vector
>: as parameter, like e.g.
>: 
>: $UUVEC = "+-0123456789abcdef...";

Then it wouldn't be uuencoded, it'd be something else.

>Too bad Perl doesn't have a tr command...   :-)

Yeah, but as I said, $var =~ tr/pattern//d doesn't appear to work.

>Larry
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