SPUG: Problems with a regex

[Tim Maher/CONSULTIX]

On Tue, Jun 05, 2001 at 04:47:26PM -0700, Brittingham, John wrote:
> 
> Having trouble replacing the following string:
<!DOCTYPE CCML3 PUBLIC > "-//ATT//dtd ccml3//EN" []>
> Any help would be appreciated.
> 


Looks like a good place to use an alternate delimiter (like |)
and the quoting metacharacters, \Q\E, to automatically
backslash all the appropriate stuff:

s|\Q<!DOCTYPE CCML3 PUBLIC > "-//ATT//dtd ccml3//EN" []>\E|WHATEVER|;
 
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