On Mon, 5 Nov 2001, Martin Karlsson wrote:
> Thanks a lot for your help and your time! I think I've got it solved
> now.
You're welcome. :>
> Could any of you recommend a good book for (learning) Perl? There seems
> to be quite a few to choose from...
Oddly enough, that's w
At 11:38 AM 11/4/01 -0800, Wagner-David wrote:
> If you only want to place parens around the input, then you can
> just place it parans like:
> $ARGV[0] = '(' . $ARGV[0] . ')';
Somewhat clearer:
$ARGV[0] = "($ARGV[0])";
> In your original code, you want
Martin,
I'm not entirely clear on what you're trying to do here, so if
this doesn't help, let me know and I'll try again.
I think the problem is that you're doing this:
s/$ARGV[0]/\($ARGV[0]\)/g
...when you want to affect $ARGV[0]. But remember that s/// and
m// are, b
t;
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> From: Martin Karlsson [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]]
> Sent: Sunday, November 04, 2001 03:54
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> Subject: regexp with $ARGV
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>
> Could anyone please show me the way to think here?
>
> If I execute a script with a
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Subject: regexp with $ARGV
Could anyone please show me the way to think here?
If I execute a script with an argument, e.g monkey, then monkey will be
found in $ARGV[0]. If I then want to highlight the word monkey by
putting it in parentheses, i thought something like
s/$ARGV[0]/
Could anyone please show me the way to think here?
If I execute a script with an argument, e.g monkey, then monkey will be
found in $ARGV[0]. If I then want to highlight the word monkey by
putting it in parentheses, i thought something like
s/$ARGV[0]/\($ARGV[0]\)/g
would do the trick; however it
