Re: tr question (probably wrong list to ask, but ...)

On 1 Dec 2007, at 00:33, Joel Rees wrote:

> This is probably the wrong list for this question, but is anyone  
> willing to give me a clue why
>
> $line =~ tr/+/ /;
>
> would clip out the lead bytes of a shift-JIS string in a cgi script?
>
That's a badly-formed regular expression. "+" means "one or more of  
what was just expressed", but you haven't expressed anything so far,  
so god knows what it will match.

I think you meant to say ".+", but that will just delete the whole  
string in this context. What did you want to do?