Thanks. It turns out that wasn't my problem at all. I had a \n character midway through and I didn't know about /gs for those characters. It was the data, not the code.
-----Original Message----- From: Bob Showalter [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]] Sent: Tuesday, June 04, 2002 2:54 PM To: Barry Jones; Beginners @ Perl (E-mail) Subject: RE: Escaping characters > -----Original Message----- > From: Barry Jones [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]] > Sent: Tuesday, June 04, 2002 1:15 PM > To: Beginners @ Perl (E-mail) > Subject: Escaping characters > > > Hi, > I'm trying to do a patter match for everything contained within > {{ stuff }}. Now I've gotten this to work just fine with ** stuff **, > ^^ and a several others, but I can't get curly braces to work > and I have > no idea why. I've tried escaping them with \ and not doing and what > have you but it just won't work. Here's the code, maybe you > can help me > out. Note: the bold tags are just there while I'm testing > it, not what > it's going to be used for. > > $body =~ s/\{\{(.*?)\}\}/\<b\>$1\<\/b\>/g; Hmm, works fine for me: $body = "Hello {{bold}} world!\n"; $body =~ s/\{\{(.*?)\}\}/\<b\>$1\<\/b\>/g; print $body; Prints: Hello <b>bold</b> world! (n.b. you don't need to escape the < and >) -- To unsubscribe, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] For additional commands, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] -- To unsubscribe, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] For additional commands, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
