why not just do
$somestring =~ s!>!)!g;
that will replace every ">" with a ")". This way you do not even have to
worry about $stringlength.
> -----Original Message-----
> From: Dan [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]]
> Sent: Friday, September 07, 2001 11:15 AM
> To: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
> Subject: general multipliers in a substitution regexp..
>
>
> Hi perlers,
>
> If I have a string with say a number of '>>>>>>' in it which may be
> variable in length and I wish to write a regexp to match and
> replace it
> with the equivalent number of ')'s [ie >>>> would become ))))]
>
> I can use $somestring =~ s/\>{$stringlength}/[help!]/g;
> as a matching operator - but why doesn't the general
> multiplier seem to
> work when I try a s/\>{$stringlength/\){$stringlength}/g;
> what I get is {$stringlength} in the output - with the value of
> $stringlength (in curly brackets!) even though the match works fine...
>
> this seems counterintuitive to me - but I'm probably missing the point
> (again!).
> Is there a perlism I'm missing? Or a better way to do it...
>
> cheers guys!
>
> dan
>
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