On Jun 8, 2005, at 8:44, Ing. Branislav Gerzo wrote:
Offer Kaye [OK], on Tuesday, June 7, 2005 at 17:04 (+0300) contributed
this to our collective wisdom:
OK> There's no need to escape metachars in the replacement part.
Without
OK> modifiers (such as "e" or "x") the replacement part is treated
as a
OK> simple double-quoted string (delimiter dependent).
OK> So the s/// can be written as:
OK> s|\./officers-gasenate\.html|http://www.legis.state.ga.us/cgi-
bin/peo_list.pl?List=stsenatedl|
why not use \Q in first part ?
Well, you could.
In the shell prompt (which is where the OP was writing the
substitution) I prefer to avoid backslashes altogether, because
otherwise I need to double-check backslash rules of the very shell.
That's why I used "[.]".
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