[Chicago-talk] Removing "." from a string?

[Andy Lester]

On Feb 1, 2008, at 5:23 PM, Steven Lembark wrote:

>> Other than saving one keystroke, is there anything specifically more
>> correct or better to using tr/// there than using perl's re?
>
> Less overhead: tr is iterative & table-driven,
> regex is recursive NDA.


All of which is undoubtedly irrelevant in this case, or 99% of any  
case unless for some reason you have a program where the bottleneck is  
the removal of periods from a string.

In this case, Richard wants the most readable version.

xoxo,
Andy

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