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From: evan@cs.mu.OZ.AU (Evan Harris)
Newsgroups: comp.lang.perl
Subject: Perl bug? - tr///c
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Date: 26 Feb 91 04:45:39 GMT
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The following code:
	$foo = '*foo';
	$foo =~ tr/a-zA-Z//c;
	print "$foo\n";
does not produce the output (I) expected.  Changing the * to (say) .
produces a different (but similar) result.

Platforms: Sun 3, 4; SunOS 4.1, 4.1.1; Perl 3.044, 4.0beta.

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 Evan Harris                     Dept. of Computer Science
 evan@cs.mu.OZ.AU          The University of Melbourne, Australia