I think you're missing the parenthesis around .* -Andres
On Fri, 2005-02-25 at 15:11 -0600, Alex Brelsfoard wrote: > Hi all, > I have a quick (hopefully) question on how to do a simple switch > statement. Let me show you what I am trying to do: > I would like to switch '[link http://www.domain.com/page.html]' to '<a > href="http://www.domain.com/page.html";>. > Here's what I was trying to do: > $message =~ s/\[link .*?\]/<a href=\"$1\">/gs; > > But I don't think that $1 is being populated until the line is entirely > processed. Can anyone think of a way to do this in one line? Or do I > have to split this up into two lines? > > Thanks. > > --Alex > > _______________________________________________ > Boston-pm mailing list > [email protected] > http://mail.pm.org/mailman/listinfo/boston-pm > _______________________________________________ Boston-pm mailing list [email protected] http://mail.pm.org/mailman/listinfo/boston-pm
