[MacPerl-AnyPerl] the /e modifier

2002-04-21 Thread allan
hi, im searcing on large html files. i want to find the start and end tags and then do some substitutions on that and at the same time do substiontions on anything else that doesn't match the start and end tags. i was thinking maybe to use the /e switch but cant get it to work. # first match

Re: [MacPerl-AnyPerl] the /e modifier

2002-04-21 Thread Bart Lateur
On Sun, 21 Apr 2002 16:08:44 +0800, allan wrote: >s/(>.+?<\/pre>)|(.*?)/&onesub($1)||&anothersub($2)/igesms; ^^ Perhaps this is part of your problem. Anyway, the syntax you're looking for, is IMO more like s/(.+?<\/pre>)|(.*?)(?=