Use the Escape-Character "\".... I think this should work... Best regards,
Holger Schell SAP AG, 68789 Rot (Germany) Non-ABAP Production Services SAP Production Student Phone: +49 6227 7- 66814 Fax: +49 6227 78-38366 ROT15, CU.01 -----Ursprüngliche Nachricht----- Von: news [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Im Auftrag von prabu Gesendet: Dienstag, 6. April 2004 14:46 An: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Betreff: Pattern Matching Hi, I want to match a pattern and replace with another string.Since the "?" is also one of the character present in the string. I am not able to do it. Please help to how to make "?" acceptable in the string used for pattern matching. My problem is: Here in the script,how to make the Perl to accept "?" symbol in the string for pattern matching. my $pattern="<a href=\"yahoo.com/getfile.php?id=1894\">Dennis"; my $replace="<script>\ndocument.write(\"<a href = \"url+\"/getfile.php?id=1894\">Dennis"; open(IN, "<$filetoopen") || die "cannot open file\n"; open(OUT, ">$test") || die "cannot open file\n"; while (<IN>){ if (/$pattern/){ s/$pattern/$replace/g; } Tell me in what way I need to give the "?'" symbol in the $pattern string,So that string will be accepted. With Thanks inadvance, Prabu. --- Outgoing mail is certified Virus Free. Checked by AVG anti-virus system (http://www.grisoft.com). Version: 6.0.620 / Virus Database: 399 - Release Date: 3/11/2004 -- To unsubscribe, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] For additional commands, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] <http://learn.perl.org/> <http://learn.perl.org/first-response> -- To unsubscribe, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] For additional commands, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] <http://learn.perl.org/> <http://learn.perl.org/first-response>
