[Philadelphia-pm] Perl one liner, regex capture group problem

[Kyle R. Burton]

> command: curl -so- http://www.wikihow.com/Make-Easy-Homemade-Biscuits|perl
> -nE "say $1 if /src='(\S+(?:png|jpg))'/"
> abbreviated output:

Stan,

You may just be hitting shell replacement since the expression is in
double quotes - try backslashing the $1:

... perl -nE "say \$1 if /src='(\S+(?:png|jpg))'/"

HTH,

Kyle


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