Re^2: String/Numeric Manipulation

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A minor nit. If I've understood the code correctly, you've used a substitution...

$days = s/+//;

...where a transliteration would be "better"...

$days = tr/+//d; # Note transobliteration modifier

...and a lot faster (not that this is really an issue in this case.)Unless you wanted to allow only a leading + in which case...

$days = s/^+//;

Elgon

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Re^3: String/Numeric Manipulation by Random_Walk (Prior) on Oct 08, 2004 at 12:05 UTC
You are right tr would have been more efficient for what I did but I really should have put `s/^+//;` to follow the principle of least surprise so that 2+3 would be rejected rather than converted to 23 Cheers, R.	[reply] [d/l]

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