Re: Cleaning Data Between Specified Columns

You can use the fact that the return value from substr() is an lvalue and do something like:

{
  local *tmp = \substr( $source, $start, $len );
  $tmp =~ y/'//d;
  $tmp =~ y/a-zA-Z0-9\n\|-/ /c;
}
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Re^2: Cleaning Data Between Specified Columns by Aristotle (Chancellor) on Jan 28, 2003 at 01:51 UTC
Damn. That's great. `:)` And with a little change it's strict compliant and shorter too: `{ local _ = \substr $source, $start, $len; y/a-zA-Z0-9\n\\|-/ /c; y/'//d; }` [download] Update:* changed order of transliterations to account for the deletion of characters causing extra characters to shift in. Makeshifts last the longest.	[reply] [d/l]