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Your tr (the program) example does, indeed, get rid of non-whitespace. The Perl program, howver, does not. What it does is: take all characters but some whitespace (those with ASCII codings 32, 9, 13, 10, in order), changing them with themselves, and returning how many have been (non) changed.

The /c option complements the first list of tr///, while leaving the second list empty makes it equal to the first (in this case, the complemented first). tr/// in any case returns the number of characters interested by the transliteration.

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In reply to Re: Re: Re: What is the difference? by dakkar
in thread What is the difference? by YAFZ

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