Re^2: getting error messaeg while substitution

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Re^3: getting error messaeg while substitution by nobull (Friar) on Apr 02, 2006 at 19:52 UTC
You appear to be getting very confused between code and data. Am I correct in understanding that you have a Perl script that is acting to modify a file that happens to contain text that is (or at least looks like) a Perl script? The s/// operator is not the system() function. This remains true notwithstanding the fact that the text that it happens be acting on looks like a line of Perl code with a system() function in it. The sequence \p in a Perl regular expression has a meaning (to do with Unicode).	[reply]
Re^3: getting error messaeg while substitution by fishbot_v2 (Chaplain) on Apr 02, 2006 at 19:53 UTC
You are incorrect. You are way, way overestimating interpolation of strings. Perl only executes external programs in backticks, `system()` and `exec()`. (Well, and a few other ways, but definitely not in regexes or double/single quoted strings.) The `\p` in regexen is for Unicode properties. You definitely don't want it there.	[reply] [d/l] [select]


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