text to replace it with.
PATTERN: Te([^ ]+).*support
REPLACEMENT: sticular
Pattern Found!
$_ => Tech Support
$1 => ch
Type "s" to confirm substitution,
or press any other key to cancel: s
COMMAND: s/Te([^ ]+
I think when you include the parentheses in your pattern $1 is being set to the
value inside the partentheses. It's as if you typed:
if(/(dir)ectory/gi)
which will set $1 to 'dir', which is probably not what you want.
I think you can avoid this if you change the line to:
if(/($pat
Adriano Allora am Montag, 2. Januar 2006 12.48:
> hi to all,
> a friend of mine ask me for a perl script to change regexp patterns in
> some texts (he can learn regexp, but I suppose he won't learn perl). So
> I start write this one to him.
> I have a problem:
> ==> with pattern = (dir)ectory and r
