[ABE.pm] Re: perl regex Q

Ricardo SIGNES rjbs-perl-abe at lists.manxome.org
Tue Dec 14 17:36:53 CST 2004


* Faber Fedor <faber at linuxnj.com> [2004-12-14T18:24:22]
> Turns out I need 4, count 'em four, backslashes in front of the N, e.g.
>     perl -iBAK -p -e 's/ *NA */\\\\N/g' foo.txt

perl needs 2, and then you have to escape them for the shell :)

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rjbs
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