jimston...@aol.com wrote:
can anyone give me some help on a perl program to change a file of mine. The string is: $_ = "from ''alam' (481) or possibly (in the sense of dumbness); solitary; Ulam, the (6155) name of two Soldiers;--Ulam." Where each line is $_ I'm trying to substitute a hyperlink for each NUMBER that is in parenthesis only, while not touching the words in parenthesis or any other numbers. For example, I want to change (481) in the line above to (<href="mypage.php?481">481</a>) and (6155) to (<href="mypage.php?6155">6155</a>) and any others without changing anything in (in the sense of dumbness).
s/\((\d+)\)/(<a href="mypage.php?$1">$1</a>)/g; John -- Any intelligent fool can make things bigger and more complex... It takes a touch of genius - and a lot of courage to move in the opposite direction. -- Albert Einstein -- To unsubscribe, e-mail: beginners-unsubscr...@perl.org For additional commands, e-mail: beginners-h...@perl.org http://learn.perl.org/
