[Chicago-talk] ok im feeling a bit (lot) retarted

[Dooley, Michael]

its a edi file and they need one of the elements changed in the line
until they can apply a permanent fix to the system.

IE I would just be swapping Address_V1 w/ Address_V2 and the rest of the
line would remain the same. so... the intent was
s/Address_V1/Address_V2/

It all seems much clearer now that I actually wrote it down and Jim
brought up the pipe metachar in the source line.

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Yeah, If you want to replace the whole line just do:
$_ = "Address_v2\n";
 
Are you mixing
$_ =~ s/this/that/;

w/ your:
s/$_/Address_v2/; syntax?

The default string to work on is $_ if you have a s/// cmd by itself.
so:
s/\Q$_\E/Address_v2/;
is like:
$_ = s/\Q$_\E/Address_v2/;
which is easier as:
$_ = "Address_v2";

Again, w/o testing, you may lose your trailing \n in the s/// form.

a

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