I have no particular reason of learning Perl, except for its \'Magnificient\' implementation of regular expressions lol.
Apart from that, I think it\'s a powerful language worth knowing.

After knowing some Perl, maybe I\'ll start with TCL and later with Python. I know some C already and that helps a lot.

Merry Christmas also and a Happy New Year.

PS: For the $trans issue, trying to do it yourself is the first step to start re-learning regexps. Good luck !
PS: In fact, no regexps are \'simple\' before you understand what you\'re writing. For example in this pattern /(.)/, there\'s
everything or \'maybe not\'. Now, try to find out why I said \'maybe not\'. ;)