[CMI.PM] String matching sanity check?

[Jay A. Kreibich]

On Wed, May 25, 2005 at 04:14:47PM -0500, Mitch Kutzko scratched on the wall:
> Hi, folks -- I'm trying to do some substitutions on some email archive
> files, and convert the "@" in any email addresses found in the Subject:
> line to " --at-- ".
> 
> I'm trying this just to test with right now:
> 
>   #!/usr/bin/perl -pi.old
>   s/Subject: \(.*\)@\(.*\)/Subject: \1 --at-- \2/g;

  You're escaping the ()'s, so it is looking for literal ()s.  If you
  want to group things for the replacement, don't escape the ()s.

   -j

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