Perl y Function



Description

This function is identical to the tr/// operator; translates all characters in SEARCHLIST into the corresponding characters in REPLACEMENTLIST. It does character by character conversion

Syntax

Following is the simple syntax for this function −

 y/SEARCHLIST/REPLACEMENTLIST/ 

Return Value

This function returns the number of characters modified.

Example

Following is the example code showing its basic usage −

 #!/usr/bin/perl -w $string = 'the cat sat on the mat.'; # This will generate a upper case string $string =~ y/a-z/A-Z/; print "$string\n"; 

When above code is executed, it produces the following result −

 THE CAT SAT ON THE MAT. 
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