Re: regexpr

2003-07-11 Thread Martin Costello
Thanks again - that "/eg" opens up a whole world of possibilities! John W. Krahn wrote: q() is another way of saying ''. All the quote operators can be found in the perlop.pod document under "Quote and Quote-like Operators" section. If you want your version to work correctly you are going to hav

Re: regexpr

2003-07-11 Thread Martin Costello
: $1 /eg; (I removed the q( ) parts from your script as it did n't work when I used variables - what does the q( ) part mean?) Again, thank you, martin John W. Krahn wrote: Martin Costello wrote: Hello, Hello, I'm trying to do a search and replace on a file (specifical

regexpr

2003-07-11 Thread Martin Costello
Hello, I'm trying to do a search and replace on a file (specifically the word transformC). A cut down version of the file is below: blahblah -blah blah -blah blah -blah $blah -blah "Ground" -c "blah transformC" transformC;