anand kumar wrote: > Hi all, Hello,
> I have the following problem in the following regex replace. > > $line=~s!\b($name)\b!<au>$1!g; > > here this regex finds the exact matching of the content in $name and does > the needed but in some examples the variable $name may contain backslash > characters like 'gene\l=s\' , in this type of cases the replace string does > not work so i have removed '\b' on either side and used the following > > $line=~s!(\Q$name\E)!<au>$1!g; > > This works fine but the problem is that the replacement is not done on the > exact word but also on substrings which is unnecessary. > > if i use both \b\b and \Q\E then the code fails to replace. > > please send suggestions in this regard $line=~s!\b(\Q$name\E)\b!<au>$1!g; John -- use Perl; program fulfillment -- To unsubscribe, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] For additional commands, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] <http://learn.perl.org/> <http://learn.perl.org/first-response>
