Hi perlers,
If I have a string with say a number of '>>>>>>' in it which may be
variable in length and I wish to write a regexp to match and replace it
with the equivalent number of ')'s [ie >>>> would become ))))]
I can use $somestring =~ s/\>{$stringlength}/[help!]/g;
as a matching operator - but why doesn't the general multiplier seem to
work when I try a s/\>{$stringlength/\){$stringlength}/g;
what I get is {$stringlength} in the output - with the value of
$stringlength (in curly brackets!) even though the match works fine...
this seems counterintuitive to me - but I'm probably missing the point
(again!).
Is there a perlism I'm missing? Or a better way to do it...
cheers guys!
dan
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