On Jan 13, Troy May said: >I'm having a problem with a bulletin board I'm setting up. All the smilies >work except for one, the wink one. which be called when you type in ";)". >It won't display the graphic. All the others are fine so I know's it not a >config or directory problem. Here's the regex that looks for it: > >$message =~ s/(\W|\A)\;\-\)/$1\<img src=$cfg{'nonCgiPath'}\/wink.gif\>/g;
You have it written to match ;-) not ;). Remove the \- from the regex. And the character ; - < > are not special to regexes. And if you don't want to write \/ in a regex to have a / in it, you can use a different regex delimiter: $message =~ s{(?<!\w);\)}{<img src="$cfg{nonCgiPath}/wink.gif">}g; I also changed your (\W|\A) to (?<!\w) which matches the same way, but doesn't actually CONSUME what it matched -- that's why I don't have $1 on the right-hand side. (?<!\w) means "not preceded by a word character", which is the same as your (\W|\A) which means "non-word character or beginning of string". -- Jeff "japhy" Pinyan [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://www.pobox.com/~japhy/ RPI Acacia brother #734 http://www.perlmonks.org/ http://www.cpan.org/ ** Look for "Regular Expressions in Perl" published by Manning, in 2002 ** <stu> what does y/// stand for? <tenderpuss> why, yansliterate of course. -- To unsubscribe, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] For additional commands, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED]