On Thu, Dec 11, 2003 at 11:07:53AM -0800, R. Joseph Newton wrote: >If you are going to do your regex work--especially at a high level--in Perl, it is >imperative that >you read the Perl documentation. The problem in the above sam[ple, or the one that >jumps out at me, >is that you are using the backslash form of back reference in the replacement string. > In the Perl >implementation, that is not appropriate. Use the built-in scalars ($1, $2 ...) >instead. Backslash >backreferences are used within the scanning portion of the regex, but not in the >replqacement >string. > >Please read: >perldoc perlre
Thanks for the pointer, Joseph. Indeed, I'm not yet up to speed on accessing perl-doc, there is quite a lot. ;-) Bye, // George -- GEORGE GEORGALIS, System Admin/Architect cell: 646-331-2027 <IXOYE>< Security Services, Web, Mail, mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Multimedia, DB, DNS and Metrics. http://www.galis.org/george -- To unsubscribe, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] For additional commands, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] <http://learn.perl.org/> <http://learn.perl.org/first-response>
