John Doe wrote: > Pant, Hridyesh am Dienstag, 25. Oktober 2005 11.04: >>But the same is working if I am using >>orgtext="Hello"; >>newtext="world"; >>I tired $intext =~ s/$orgtext/$newtext/ms; but this is not working.. >>The only problem is string like "C:\\test". > > I was not well prepared with my last answer. > > First, the combination of > m: Treat string as multiple lines > and > s: Treat string as single line > is still contradictory.
/m defines how the anchors ^ and $ behave and /s defines how the . behaves so they are not contradictory. John -- use Perl; program fulfillment -- To unsubscribe, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] For additional commands, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] <http://learn.perl.org/> <http://learn.perl.org/first-response>