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Substituting, replace with var

godsmack
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May 18, 2001, 6:54 AM

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Substituting, replace with var	Can't Post

I'm having a problem, perhaps its just me, but is there a way that I can find a string, and replace it with its variable equivalent.. heres the line I'm working with

$string =~ s/(<<(.*)>>)/\$$2/is;
$string contains <<words>>, and I want it to replace <<words>> with what's in the variable $words.

Any ideas or suggestions?

japhy
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May 18, 2001, 1:53 PM

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Re: Substituting, replace with var [In reply to]	Can't Post

You'll have to evaluate the right-hand side of the s///:

Code

s/<<(.*?)>>/"\$$1"/eeg;

First, I got rid of the useless first set of ()'s. Then, I changed .* to .*?, since using .* will match "a>> and <<b" in "<<a>> and <<b>>". Then, I fixed the right side to evaluated as a string, and then again as code. It should work for you.

Jeff "japhy" Pinyan -- accomplished hacker, teacher, lecturer, and author

godsmack
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May 18, 2001, 6:39 PM

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thx [In reply to]	Can't Post

Thanks japhy ;-)

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