SPUG: regex problems...

[Sean]

I don't pretent to be an expert at Perl, so hopefully this isn't a silly question everyone but me knows:

I'm doing some search & replace functions, and I've assigned some big strings of HTML to variables, and I've got a question about the s/// function:

If I say:

$snip='<a href="http://blah.foo.com/index.htm" class="style"';
$code =~ s/$snip/[replacement/gsi;

And
$code =~ s/<a href="http://blah.foo.com/index.htm" class="style"/[replacement/gsi;


I know example 2 is wrong and I need to escape a few characters, but why won't example 1 work?  If I change $snip to ="blah" then the expression will return true, but the full html variable always returns false, even though I can see that exact line in my code.  Can anyone tell me what I'm doing wrong?


thanks!

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