[Philadelphia-pm] Perl one liner, regex capture group problem

[Walt Mankowski]

On Fri, Oct 28, 2011 at 11:14:56AM -0400, Kyle R. Burton wrote:
> > command: curl -so- http://www.wikihow.com/Make-Easy-Homemade-Biscuits|perl
> > -nE "say $1 if /src='(\S+(?:png|jpg))'/"
> > abbreviated output:
> 
> Stan,
> 
> You may just be hitting shell replacement since the expression is in
> double quotes - try backslashing the $1:
> 
> ... perl -nE "say \$1 if /src='(\S+(?:png|jpg))'/"

An alternative would be to enclose the perl in single quotes instead
of double quotes. Then you don't have to worry about backslashing the
$1, but you do need to backslash the single quotes:

  perl -nE 'say $1 if /src=\'(\S+(?:png|jpg))\'/'

But unfortunately if you're on Windows then you can't use single
quotes. so you'll need to use Kyle's solution.

Walt
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