that worked. Now I wanted to replace any white space with a single space.
I used this command perl -pi.bak -w -e "s/\s+/ /g" map.bat That worked correctly but it removed all of my new lines. Why should I use tr instead? > -----Original Message----- > From: Bob Showalter [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]] > Sent: Friday, January 10, 2003 11:53 AM > To: 'Paul Kraus'; Perl > Subject: RE: one liner replace / with \ > > > Paul Kraus wrote: > > I want to replace all forward slashes with back slashes is a file. > > Using a one liner I tried > > > > perl -I -i.bak -w -e 's!/!\\!g' map.bat > > 1) You don't need -I > > 2) You do need -p > > 3) You probably need to use double-quotes instead of single, > due to Windows shell brain damage. > > 4) tr/// is an alternate to s///g you might consider: > > perl -pi.bak -e "tr./.\\." map.bat > > > > > I get this error > > useless use of a constant in void context at -e line 1. > > I think this is because Windows is passing the single quotes > along to Perl, so it sees a single-quoted literal instead of > a substitution operator. > > > > > this is on a windows xp machine. > -- To unsubscribe, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] For additional commands, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
