Hello All, I know this is very basic and similar items have come up numerous times on this list, but I'm not sure where my boneheaded mistake is here.
I have a file which has many strings like "$something[0]" through "something[20]" amongst other text (quotes only provided here for clarity). What I want to do is replace these strings with: "$SOMETHING0" through "$SOMETHING20". When I run: perl -p -i -e 's/something\[([0-9][0-9]?)\]/SOMETHING$1/g' file "file" becomes 0 bytes. I'm not quite sure why this is happening; is it a fault of my regex? Or - maybe less likely - could it because "file" is on a file system Samba mounted from Linux to NT? I know there is a command line option to use a backup file instead of modifying the original, but no matter how many times I've seen this, I can't recall it. Thanks much, -Ian -- To unsubscribe, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] For additional commands, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
