G'day craigt,
"I have not been able to substitute or transform, split, or substr."
You could use any of those methods.
I'm assuming by "transform" you mean transliteration (i.e. y/// aka tr///).
I acknowledge that some of these solutions have already been posted.
- substitution
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$ perl -E 'my $x = "A(B"; $x =~ s/\(/</; say $x'
A<B
- transliteration
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$ perl -E 'my $x = "A(B"; $x =~ y/(/</; say $x'
A<B
- split
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$ perl -E 'my $x = "A(B"; $x = join "<", split /\(/, $x; say $x'
A<B
- substr
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$ perl -E 'my $x = "A(B"; substr $x, index($x, "("), 1, "<"; say $x'
A<B
Now use Benchmark to compare the different methods.
Please post the results as I (and probably others) would be interested.
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