Perl Programming/Keywords/tr

The tr keyword

tr is the transiteration operator and equivalent to y.

Syntax

  tr///

Examples

The code

$tmp = "909135790159";

print $tmp . "\n";
$tmp =~ tr/13579/24680/;

print $tmp . "\n";

replaces the respective characters in the first parametre with the corresponding characters in the second parametre:

909135790159
000246800260

See also

• y