[NTLUG:Discuss] removing text: fighting tr and regex

[Fred James]

Richard Geoffrion wrote:

>Stuart Johnston wrote:
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>So...lots of PERL examples and other PERLISMs...but what about TR?  
>Is/was 'tr' the wrong utility to trim this kind of text out of a 
>string?  Does 'tr' understand regex?
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Richard Geoffrion
'tr' generally finds specified character(s) and replaces it/them with 
specified character(s), although that may be an oversimplification (see 
man tr).
Regards
Fred James


NAME
       tr - translate or delete characters
 
SYNOPSIS
       tr [OPTION]... SET1 [SET2]
 
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