>>>>> "AB" == Alex Brelsfoard <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes:
AB> I have a quick (hopefully) question on how to do a simple switch AB> statement. Let me show you what I am trying to do: what switch statement? s/// is substitute. perl has no switch operator nor statement. AB> I would like to switch '[link http://www.domain.com/page.html]' to '<a AB> href="http://www.domain.com/page.html";>. AB> Here's what I was trying to do: AB> $message =~ s/\[link .*?\]/<a href=\"$1\">/gs; you don't need /s unless . needs to match a newline. since the part after link is a blank (you check for only a single blank and that is not the best way) and a url, you won't need to have . match newlines. the\ before " in the replacement side is not needed. " isn't the delimiter so it doesn't need escaping. AB> But I don't think that $1 is being populated until the line is AB> entirely processed. Can anyone think of a way to do this in one AB> line? Or do I have to split this up into two lines? question: what populates $1 (and friends)? answer: grabbed parts of a regex. question: do you see any grabbed parts? answer: no, i don't. solution: put () around the match part that you want in $1. uri -- Uri Guttman ------ [EMAIL PROTECTED] -------- http://www.stemsystems.com --Perl Consulting, Stem Development, Systems Architecture, Design and Coding- Search or Offer Perl Jobs ---------------------------- http://jobs.perl.org _______________________________________________ Boston-pm mailing list [email protected] http://mail.pm.org/mailman/listinfo/boston-pm
