"John W. Krahn" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: anand kumar wrote:
> Hi all,
Hello,
> I have the following problem in the following regex replace.
>
> $line=~s!\b($name)\b!$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)!$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!$1!g;
John
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Hi john,
i have tried the above method but the replace ment is done .
regards
anand
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