Colin Johnstone wrote: > > Gidday all, Hello,
> I have a paragraph of text, I want to convert any double quotes around > quoted text to \" is this the correct reg ex > > $paragraph =~ s{\"}{\\"}g; Yes that will work although you don't need to backslash the quote in the regular expression. $ perl -le'$_ = q[one "two" three]; s{"}{\\"}g; print' one \"two\" three John -- use Perl; program fulfillment -- To unsubscribe, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] For additional commands, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED]