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Top Forums UNIX for Dummies Questions & Answers tr command Post 302389988 by cjcox on Tuesday 26th of January 2010 02:41:17 PM
Old 01-26-2010
No. tr is NOT the right tool for this. You can do this sort of thing with sed (with some difficulty), awk or perl though. If you don't need this to be fast, you could also read each line, slice it up and use tr on the part that needs to be converted and reassemble the pieces.
 

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pfunc

PFUNC(1)						User Contributed Perl Documentation						  PFUNC(1)

NAME

       pfunc - grep for perl functions

SYNOPSIS

	   pfunc subroutine FILES...

DESCRIPTION

       pfunc searches the named FILES for all calls to the given subroutine.  It will report back the file and line number each call is found on
       along with what sort of call it is

	   function	       foo()
	   class method        Class->foo()
	   object method       $obj->foo()

EXAMPLE

	   $ pfunc isa /usr/share/perl/5.6.1/*.pm
	   Called as function in /usr/share/perl/5.6.1/CGI.pm at line 316
	   Called as function in /usr/share/perl/5.6.1/CGI.pm at line 327
	   Called as function in /usr/share/perl/5.6.1/CGI.pm at line 397
	   Called as function in /usr/share/perl/5.6.1/CGI.pm at line 494
	   Called as function in /usr/share/perl/5.6.1/CGI.pm at line 495
	   Called as object method in /usr/share/perl/5.6.1/CPAN.pm at line 4957
	   Called as function in /usr/share/perl/5.6.1/Dumpvalue.pm at line 191
	   Called as function in /usr/share/perl/5.6.1/Dumpvalue.pm at line 218
	   Called as function in /usr/share/perl/5.6.1/Dumpvalue.pm at line 248
	   Called as function in /usr/share/perl/5.6.1/Dumpvalue.pm at line 251
	   Called as function in /usr/share/perl/5.6.1/Dumpvalue.pm at line 254
	   Called as object method in /usr/share/perl/5.6.1/Shell.pm at line 28
	   Called as object method in /usr/share/perl/5.6.1/base.pm at line 12

NOTES

       Its not fast, but its accurate.

AUTHOR

       Michael G Schwern <schwern@pobox.com>

SEE ALSO

       Module::Info

perl v5.12.1							    2002-12-05								  PFUNC(1)
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