On 11/8/07, howa <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> 2. perl -pe 's/(?<=[^\\])\\\'//g' test.txt (Note a single quote is
> inserted in the middle)
Check your shell's documentation on how to quote command line
arguments. If you need to find out what, exactly, a command-line
argument says by the time it gets to perl, you can easily examine
@ARGV in the debugger, with the x command. I generally type something
like this:
$ perl -debug 'odd\\\'string
Loading DB routines from perl5db.pl version 1.28
Editor support available.
Enter h or `h h' for help, or `man perldebug' for more help.
main::(-e:1): bug
DB<1> x [EMAIL PROTECTED]
0 ARRAY(0x180b4e8)
0 'odd\\\\\\string'
>From this, I can see that @ARGV got a single argument containing three
backslashes. (The output shows them in Perl syntax, thus two
backslashes for each one in the true argument.)
If you still have trouble getting your shell to do what you want, a
support group specifically for your operating system should be
helpful.
Cheers!
--Tom Phoenix
Stonehenge Perl Training
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