Thanks Pete, I actually thought about this, but because of the format of my perl script, it'll get too messy if I do this with a regex. The thing is, If I didn't have any other string other than the filename, then this would have been really easy to do. Ex:
$fileName = "File1"; $var = '$fileName'; $string = eval($var); # $string now stores 'File1'. But this won't work if $var='1>>$fileName'. I was hoping there would be a simple way getting around this without using any regexps. Navid M. --- Pete Emerson <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Your first perl script sends '1>>$filename' (single > quotes, this is NOT a > variable) ... and you want to replace '$filename' > with the contents of the > variable $filename? > > If I have that correct, a regex will help: > > my $string='1>>$filename'; # This is coming from > your first perl script. > my $filename='filename.txt'; > $string=~s/\$filename/$filename/; # Regex! Escape > the $ ... > print "$string\n"; > > Pete > ______________________________________________________________________ Post your free ad now! http://personals.yahoo.ca -- To unsubscribe, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] For additional commands, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
