From: Robert Dober <robert.dober@...>
Date: 2007-05-03T14:21:15+09:00
Subject: Re: Question regarding tr method in Strings Class

On 5/3/07, Michael W. Ryder <_mwryder@worldnet.att.net> wrote:
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> Your solution is about the same as the solution I found "clumsy".
You are not coming from a Unix background, are you? We are used to
pasting things together like that, but I respect your taste.
 > I can
> use a.tr to remove multiple different characters such as: a ="This is a
> test, this is only a test!". a.tr(",!", "") will remove the comma and
> exclamation mark.  So why can't I use the same method to remove the
> comma and replace the exclamation mark with a period?  I know that there
> are escape codes for things like tabs and new-lines, so I was wondering
> if there was one for a null character.
I understood that you wanted to delete a character not to replace it
with a null character, which should be possible via \000. But I fail
to see the purpose of this in the context of your question.
Robert
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