[CMI.PM] String matching sanity check?

[Mitch Kutzko]

Doh.  vi's "ed" bites me once again.   :-)

After un-escaping the parens, it works wonderfully!

Thanks,

Mitch


At 04:18 PM 5/25/2005 -0500, you wrote:
> Take out the backslashes before the parentheses -- it's not necessary as 
> the parentheses are already special grouping characters.
> 
> Cheers,
> Arun
> 
> On Wed, 25 May 2005 4:15 pm, Mitch Kutzko wrote:
> > 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;
> >
> > But this steadfastly refuses to match anything.  Here's a typical line 
> > it
> > would encounter:
> >
> >   Subject: DAST: Iperf - Iperf win32 Binaries - mervyn.yeo at gmail.com
> >
> > Doesn't matter if I escape the "@".   This also doesn't match:
> >
> >   s/Subject: \(.*\)\@\(.*\)/Subject: \1 --at-- \2/g;
> >
> >
> > This has to be some simple thing I'm forgetting, but right now it's
> > completely eluding me.  Any ideas?
> >
> > Thanks,
> >
> > Mitch
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