From: snacktime <snacktime@...>
Date: 2006-08-13T12:19:42+09:00
Subject: Re: perl tr and ruby String#tr

> Have you tried the seemingly simple approach like this, which avoids
> eval:
>
> ratdog:~ mike$ irb --prompt simple
>  >> @upper_case = 'ABCDEFGHIJKLMNOPQRSTUVWXYZ'
> => "ABCDEFGHIJKLMNOPQRSTUVWXYZ"
>  >> def uc(s)
>  >> s.tr('abcdefghijklmnopqrstuvwxyz', @upper_case)
>  >> end
> => nil
>  >> uc('banana')
> => "BANANA"
>  >> @upper_case = 'abcdefghijklmnopqrstuvwxyz'
> => "abcdefghijklmnopqrstuvwxyz"
>  >> uc('banana')
> => "banana"

Yes I tried it without eval also, but it won't produce the same output
as the perl code.   I've tried every incantation I can think of but no
luck.  I'm checking my results by comparing them to the output of
perl's String::Parity.  The perl code  I posted is basically an
abbreviation of what String::Parity does when setting even parity.
It's the last bit in this damn module I'm working on also:)  If I get
this figured out I'll be done.