On Jun 6, David Gilden said:
>s/l\w+/[]gsx;
>
>File "untitled 15"; Line 6: Substitution replacement not terminated.
That regex is malformed. Please see chapter 7 ("Substitution") of
"Regular Expressions in Perl"[1], and note the following excerpt:
As with m//, you can use a character other
Hi,
What is going on with the [] at the end of the regrex?
Thnx,
Dave G.
I so understand s/// however... I am little confused with following:
#!/usr/bin/perl -w
$s = "long string of stuff";
($r = $s) =~ s/l\w+/[]gsx;
print $r;
__END__
File "untitled 15"; Line 6: Substitution replace
