my logic was to just put the space character in place of comma and keep rest as it is
but unfortunately that does not work thanks john for your trick it is working now ________________________________ From: John W. Krahn <jwkr...@shaw.ca> To: Perl Beginners <beginners@perl.org> Sent: Thursday, April 28, 2011 7:47 PM Subject: Re: regular expression Irfan Sayed wrote: > hi, Hello, > i have following code. > > > $target = "abc,xyz"; > print "$target\n"; > $target =~ s/,/\s/g; > print "$target\n"; > > i need to replace "comma" with whitespace for string "abc,xyz" "Whitespace" is something that applies only to regular expressions but the second part of the substitution operator is just a string, not a regular expression. And which of the five whitespace characters should this string interpolate "\s" as: " ", "\r", "n", "t" or "\f"? > the output shud be "abc xyz" > > > the above regular expression does not do that . please suggest $target =~ tr/,/ /; John -- Any intelligent fool can make things bigger and more complex... It takes a touch of genius - and a lot of courage to move in the opposite direction. -- Albert Einstein -- To unsubscribe, e-mail: beginners-unsubscr...@perl.org For additional commands, e-mail: beginners-h...@perl.org http://learn.perl.org/
