>>>>> "JWK" == John W Krahn <jwkr...@shaw.ca> writes:
JWK> Shawn H Corey wrote:
>> On 11-03-29 07:50 PM, Noah Garrett Wallach wrote:
>>>
>>> s/(\d+)\.(\d+)\.(\d+)\.(\d+)/$1:$2:$3:$4::0/
>>>
>>> so is there a slick, easily readable way to get the value $1, $2, $3, $4
>>> to be rewriten as %x instead of a %d?
>>
>> s/(\d+)\.(\d+)\.(\d+)\.(\d+)/sprintf('%x:%x:%x:%x::0',$1,$2,$3,$4)/e;
JWK> Might be better as:
JWK> sprintf '%x:%x:%x:%x::0', /(\d+)\.(\d+)\.(\d+)\.(\d+)/;
JWK> So you don't have to use eval.
that works too but don't confuse /e with string eval. in /e the code is
compiled at compile time, not runtime so it is safe and you can't do
anything more dangerous as regular code could. on the otherhand, /ee
(which does work by accident of larry! :) does call string eval on the
result of the replacment expression.
the other difference is that the s///e version replaces the IP with a
hex version and yours needs to be assigned back to the variable. not a
big diff.
and if you are only working on an ip address with no other text, you can
even reduce yours (and the others) to a single (\d+) with /g:
sprintf '%x:%x:%x:%x::0', /(\d+)/g ;
the s/// could be rewritten like this (note both /e and /g are used):
$ip =~ s/(\d+)\.?/sprintf('%x:',$1)/eg ;
$ip .= ':0' ;
here is a working example:
perl -le '$x ="12.23.34.56"; $x =~ s/(\d+)\.?/sprintf("%x:",$1)/eg; print $x'
c:17:22:38:
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