Re: What's wrong with this program?

From: Uri Guttman (uri_at_stemsystems.com)
Date: 01/05/05 

Date: Wed, 05 Jan 2005 20:34:40 GMT

>>>>> "L" == Leon <lianjian@caip.rutgers.edu> writes:

  L> #!/usr/bin/perl
  L> use File::Find;

  L> find(\&d, @ARGV);
  L> sub d{
  L> my $file=$File::Find::name;
  L> $file =~ tr/A-Z/a-z/g;
                         ^
  L> print $file, "\n";
  L> }

  L> The error message is:
  L> Bareword found where operator expected at re.sh line 7, near
  L> "tr/A-Z/a-z/g"
  L> syntax error at re.sh line 7, near "tr/A-Z/a-z/g"

tr IS NOT a regex nor is it s///. it has its own modifiers.

perldoc -f tr

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