Within single quotes "[" is not considered as a special character. So,it's a mess trying to escape this character with backslash "\". So,your code expects \[%one_two%\] instead of [%one_two%].
On Thu, 7 Oct 2004, Anish Kumar K. wrote: > Hi > > Please anyone help me in Reg Exp. I wanted to replace "[%one_two%]" and "[%pne%]" > with the value "New" say... > #!/usr/bin/perl > > $openTag='\[%'; > $closeTag='%\]'; > my $count=0; > $_= "This is a test for [%one_two%] number and [%pne%] numbers."; > > s/$openTag.*$closeTag/New/g; > > print "The new line is:::::: $_ \n"; > -- Regards, K.Prabakar -- To unsubscribe, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] For additional commands, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] <http://learn.perl.org/> <http://learn.perl.org/first-response>
