Ok JD thanks
On Feb 26, 2011, at 3:46 PM, John Delacour <johndelac...@gmail.com> wrote: > At 12:57 -0800 26/02/2011, Richard Green wrote: > > >> > What is $gene_id? >>> Are you by any chance using '$' at the beginning of your search pattern >>> instead of the end? >> I have $ to designate the end of the row >> $gene_id > > $gene_id designates $gene_id period. > >> > Why are you escaping the quote marks? >> I thought it would be easier to perform substitution without them > > What made you think that? > >> > Why is there no space after 'gene_id'? >> I guess there should be > > You can guess as much as you like but Perl Regular Expressions don't care > what you think or what you guess. Read perlvar and pelretut. > > JD > > > > -- > To unsubscribe, e-mail: beginners-unsubscr...@perl.org > For additional commands, e-mail: beginners-h...@perl.org > http://learn.perl.org/ > > -- To unsubscribe, e-mail: beginners-unsubscr...@perl.org For additional commands, e-mail: beginners-h...@perl.org http://learn.perl.org/
