/ 'literal string in target' /
> On 29 Oct 2022, at 23:28, ToddAndMargo via perl6-users <perl6-us...@perl.org>
> wrote:
>
>
>>> On 29 Oct 2022, at 22:02, ToddAndMargo via perl6-users
>>> <perl6-us...@perl.org> wrote:
>>>
>>> Hi All,
>>>
>>> I am trying to change
>>>
>>> /
>>>
>>> into
>>>
>>> \\\
>>>
>>> This works:
>>>
>>>
>>> $ echo "a/b/c/d" | raku -ne 'my $x=$_; $x~~s:g|$(Q[/])|\\\\\\|;print $x ~
>>> "\n"'
>>> a\\\b\\\c\\\d
>>>
>>>
>>> But this does not:
>>>
>>> $ echo "a/b/c/d" | raku -ne 'my $x=$_; $x~~s:g|$(Q[/])|Q[\\\]|;print $x ~
>>> "\n"'
>>> aQ[\]bQ[\]cQ[\]d
>>>
>>>
>>> How do I put a literal string in the
>>> target of a regex?
>>>
>>> Many thanks,
>>> -T
>
> On 10/29/22 13:07, Elizabeth Mattijsen wrote:
> > $ echo "a/b/c/d" | raku -ne 'say .subst("/", Q/\\\/, :g)'
> >
>
> Hi Elizabeth,
>
> Thank you for the subst workaround!
>
> Do you also know how to do a literal string in
> the target of the regex?
>
> -T
>
