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Re: find & replace a string in perl

by Corion (Patriarch)
on Nov 25, 2010 at 07:57 UTC ( [id://873593]=note: print w/replies, xml ) Need Help??


in reply to find & replace a string in perl

s/test/^\#/g

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This does not do what you think it does. Try this substitution on its own and think about what you see. Good example data would be

hello test foo
thisisjustatest
test1 test2 test3

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Hint: The right hand side of a regular expression is not magic, it is just a string.

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Re^2: find & replace a string in perl
by iefbr14 (Initiate) on Nov 25, 2010 at 15:22 UTC
    i'd try
    s/^(.*?)test(.*)$/"#$1"."test$2"/e

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