happy new year to all,.. i've a qn.,:) i want to 'insert' an escape character for every '[' & ']' i will find in a variable.. Suppose $temp has a word which might contain [ and/or ]. Eg: if $temp has hello] the modified temp should have hello\]
if $value has [hello] i want the result to be \[hello\]. Is there a quick one line regex to do this? i'm able to match the presence of [ & ] if( (/\[/)|(/\]/) ){ my $value = $_; $value =~ s/\[/\\\[/; $value =~ s/\]/\\\]/; print $value; } Kinda doing the stuff,but i just checkign out a 1 liner reg-ex. regards -ajey -- To unsubscribe, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] For additional commands, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] <http://learn.perl.org/> <http://learn.perl.org/first-response>