Path: utzoo!utgpu!cunews!cognos!alanm
From: alanm@cognos.UUCP (Alan Myrvold)
Newsgroups: comp.lang.perl
Subject: Problem with $foo =~ tr/b//d; ?
Message-ID: <9371@cognos.UUCP>
Date: 22 Feb 91 20:43:18 GMT
Reply-To: alanm@cognos.UUCP (Alan Myrvold)
Organization: Cognos Inc., Ottawa, Canada
Lines: 40

When I try the following :

    $foo = "aaabbbccc";
    $foo =~ tr/b//d;
    print $foo,"\n";

I get :

    aaabbbccc

while I expect :

    aaaccc
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and yet,

    $_ = "aaabbbccc";
    tr/b//d;
    print $_,"\n";

does "the right thing".
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perl -v produces :

    This is perl, version 3.0
    
    $Header: perly.c,v 3.0.1.10 91/01/11 18:22:48 lwall Locked $
    Patch level: 44
    
    Copyright (c) 1989, 1990, Larry Wall
    
    Perl may be copied only under the terms of the GNU General Public License,
    a copy of which can be found with the Perl 3.0 distribution kit.
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SunOS Release 4.1, if it matters.
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