On 8/16/07, John W. Krahn <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
snip
> The object created by qr// *is* a compiled regex:
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Yeah my bad, the stringification confused me for a minute.
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Chas Owens wrote:
qr// is just a fancy double
quote that adds a non-capturing group and sets the appropriate options
(in case you did something like qr/foo/i). The string "(?:-xism:foo)"
is no more or less a regex than the string "foo".
Let's look into that.
C:\home>type test.pl
$re1 = '(?i-x
Chas Owens wrote:
On 8/16/07, Paul Lalli <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
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Silly rhetorical-ness aside, you seem unfamiliar with the term you
introduced to this thread: "string form of a regexp":
$ perl -le'
$a = q{foo};
$b = qr{foo};
print $a;
print $b;
'
foo
(?-xism:foo)
My assertion is that y
On 8/16/07, Paul Lalli <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
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> Silly rhetorical-ness aside, you seem unfamiliar with the term you
> introduced to this thread: "string form of a regexp":
>
> $ perl -le'
> $a = q{foo};
> $b = qr{foo};
> print $a;
> print $b;
> '
> foo
> (?-xism:foo)
>
> My assertion is tha
On Aug 16, 10:19 am, [EMAIL PROTECTED] (Chas Owens) wrote:
> On 8/16/07, Paul Lalli <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
>
> > On Aug 16, 5:12 am, [EMAIL PROTECTED] (Chas Owens) wrote:
> > > Basically
> > > it all comes down to this: always use quotemeta unless the variable is
> > > known to contain the stri
On 8/16/07, Paul Lalli <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> On Aug 16, 5:12 am, [EMAIL PROTECTED] (Chas Owens) wrote:
> > Basically
> > it all comes down to this: always use quotemeta unless the variable is
> > known to contain the string form of a regex.
>
> No. It comes down to: "always use quotemeta un
On Aug 16, 5:12 am, [EMAIL PROTECTED] (Chas Owens) wrote:
> Basically
> it all comes down to this: always use quotemeta unless the variable is
> known to contain the string form of a regex.
No. It comes down to: "always use quotemeta unless the variable is
known to contain the string form of a re
On Aug 16, 4:37 am, [EMAIL PROTECTED] (Dr.Ruud) wrote:
> Paul Lalli schreef:
>
> > s/$h1_sec/$mod_sec/; #replace the pattern found with the
> > modified version
>
> Many s/$search/replace/ constructs should have been written with
> quotemeta, so that they look like:
>
> s/\Q${search}/repl
Apologies I miss read the original remark.
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To: Andrew Curry
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On 8/16/07, Andrew Curry <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote
On 8/16/07, Andrew Curry <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
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>> Many s/$search/replace/ constructs should have been written with quotemeta,
>> so that they look like:
>>
>> s/\Q${search}/replace/
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> Why?
snip
given
my $search = "file.txt";
What do you want matched? Without the quotemeta it
Why?
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To: beginners@perl.org
Subject: Re: One liner to change one line
Paul Lalli schreef:
> s/$h1_sec/$mod_sec/; #replace the pattern found with the
> modified version
Many s/$search/r
Paul Lalli schreef:
> s/$h1_sec/$mod_sec/; #replace the pattern found with the
> modified version
Many s/$search/replace/ constructs should have been written with
quotemeta, so that they look like:
s/\Q${search}/replace/
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On Aug 15, 2007, at 7:04 PM, Xavier Noria wrote:
perl -0777 -pi.bak -we 's{()(.*?)()}{$x = $2; $x =~
tr:-: :; "$1$x$3"}geis' *.html
A small improvement, groups are unnecessary because the elements are
guaranteed not to have hyphens (in general they could, for instance
in a class name, b
On Aug 15, 12:45 pm, [EMAIL PROTECTED] (Dennis G. Wicks) wrote:
> Greetings;
>
> I have, conservatively, dozens of html files to change.
>
> I can find them and pass the file name to perl and
> do the usual s/// changes but there is one change I can't
> figure out.
>
> There is a line in each file
On Aug 15, 2007, at 6:45 PM, Dennis G. Wicks wrote:
Greetings;
I have, conservatively, dozens of html files to change.
I can find them and pass the file name to perl and
do the usual s/// changes but there is one change I can't
figure out.
There is a line in each file that looks like
Th
Greetings;
I have, conservatively, dozens of html files to change.
I can find them and pass the file name to perl and
do the usual s/// changes but there is one change I can't
figure out.
There is a line in each file that looks like
This-Is-The-Title
of course, they are all different!
Ho
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