Drieux wrote: > > On Dec 3, 2003, at 12:25 PM, Saskia van der Elst wrote: > > > I have trouble executing a search and replace through all files in a > > certain > > directory. > > > > I want to replace " _</pat" by "</pat" > > > > Can I match a white-space? > > > > I have tried the following regex: > > > > s/ _\</pat/"</pat"/g > [..] > > I agree with Tom that you get better > mileage by putting your delimiters to > something OTHER than a token in the > pattern that you are matching. > > but there is also the little detail > of putting that "\" in the right place. > > $_ =~ s/"_\</pat"/"\</pat"/gi; #g for every occurrence, i for > > should ahve been > > $_ =~ s/_<\/pat/<\/pat/gi; #g for every occurrence, i for > > target what you WANT to target and no more. > > remember that those double quotes will allow things > to be 'interpolated' - which is not what you want.
No they won't: they're not string delimiters in this context so they'll be treated as any other non-special character between the real s/// slash delimiters. Rob -- To unsubscribe, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] For additional commands, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
