From: "kza" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> > On Sun, Jan 20, 2002 at 09:00:57PM +1300, Nick Rout wrote: > > "Mailing Lists/Linux/CLUG" to a string like > > > > "Mailing Lists.Linux.CLUG" > > I believe perl can easily use regular expressions in a similar way to > sed. The perlretut and prelre man pages should help out, (don't seem > to have those man pages here for some reason, so I won't guess the > exact syntax, cos no doubt the / and a . have special meaning in > regexps and will need some sort fo escaping) > I think that with perl you use something like \/ with the \ being the escape character, so presumably if . requires escaping it'll be \.
So either s/\//./g or s/\//\./g should do the trick. the g tells it to do a global replacement. In case the above looks like gibberish (it does to me), it's saying s/this/that/g with "this" being "\/" and "that" being "\." -- Paul Wilkins | /\ Inform yourself | Paul Wilkins | When you ask a computer person to | /__\ Project Mayhem | Christchurch | fix your machine, they will first | http://tetrica.com/ | (03) 3433097 | spend hours downloading upgrades.
