SPUG: regex problems...

[Ken McGlothlen]

"Sean" <seanow0 at email.msn.com> writes:

| 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?

Well, I assume that the pesky "[" character is *not* in your actual code (in
general, it's best to include actual code rather than pseudocode).

In fact, could you post the actual code, plus the actual line in the text
you're attempting to replace?

							---Ken

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