tr alke expansion?

tr alke expansion?

[Marc Chantreux]

hi all,

is there a tr alike expansion in zsh ? something like :

% a=éèê
% echo ${a(t:éèê:eee:)}
eee

regards
mc

Re: tr alke expansion?

[Clint Adams]

> is there a tr alike expansion in zsh ? something like :
> 
> % a=???
> % echo ${a(t:???:eee:)}
> eee

That doesn't look very tr-like.  Maybe you want

print ${a/\?\?\?/eee}

or

print ${a//\?/e}

Re: tr alke expansion?

[Marc Chantreux]

Clint Adams wrote:
>> is there a tr alike expansion in zsh ? something like :
>>
>> % a=???
>> % echo ${a(t:???:eee:)}
>> eee

something wrong there : there are accents in my original post :)

i write it again but with a notation 'e = eacute, etc ...

% a="i want to erase accents 'e`e^e^o"
% echo ${a(t:'e`e^e^o:eeeo:)}
i want to erase accents eeeo

this is a better exemple ...


regards

Re: tr alke expansion?

[Clint Adams]

> something wrong there : there are accents in my original post :)

Sorry; embarrassing glitch on my side.  Lifted from
http://www.zsh.org/mla/users/2001/msg00221.html:

first=éèê
second=eee
a=bébèbê
print ${a//(#b)([$first])/${second[${first[(I)$match]}]}}

This does not work with multibyte character sets such
as UTF-8.