On Oct 4, 8:19 am, [EMAIL PROTECTED] (Praveena Vittal) wrote:
> I need a way to replace a backslash(ie:\) with \\ in a string.
>
> Please help me...
$string =~ s{\\}{\\\\}g;
The problem is that \ is a special character both to a regular
expression and to a double quoted string, so it needs to be escaped in
both parts of the s///.
> eg:ssh\[[\d]*\] from [\d\.]* consider the string
I have no idea what this line means, nor what it has to do with your
stated problem goal.
Paul Lalli
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