[Fixed Jeopardy quoting]
[EMAIL PROTECTED] (Martin Pfeffer) wrote on 19 Nov 2001: > FLAHERTY, JIM-CONT wrote: > >> My script dumps file name into a mysql DB on redhat 7.1 linux . The >> problem I have is sometime windows files has a single quote ( ' ) >> in the name. I want to replace it with a space . I not strong on >> pattern matching in perl yet >> >> >> $thestring = "this isn't a good file name"; > > $thestring =~ s/'/ /g; If you're simply replacing one set of characters with another, the preferred function (actually an operator) is tr/// $thestring =~ tr/'/ /; If tr/// is a shovel, then s/// is a bulldozer. -- David Wall [EMAIL PROTECTED] -- To unsubscribe, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] For additional commands, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
