On Apr 9, Raghupathy, Ramesh . said:
> I am trying to translate the abbreviation of the form A(4) to AAAA. I
>tried substitution as follows:
>$wholefile =~ s/(\w)\((\d+)\)/$1{$2}/g;
It seems like you think that x{y} syntax used in a regex can be used
elsewhere -- nope. Instead, you need to use the 'x' operator. As your
code is now, Perl thinks you are working with the %1 hash.
s/(\w)\((\d+)\)/$1 x $2/eg;
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