>>>>> "sw" == shawn wilson <ag4ve...@gmail.com> writes:
sw> second, why not use a place holder like someone recommended yesterday? sw> something like: sw> s/^(.+)$/<s>\1<\/s>/g what is a placeholder? nothing like that in regexes. what you have there is a backreference and used in the wrong place. \1 is meant to be used ONLY in the regex part, not the replacement section. use $1 to get the first grabbed part when in the replacement part. your code will generate warnings: perl -wle '$x = "a" ; $x =~ s/(a)/\1\1/' \1 better written as $1 at -e line 1. \1 better written as $1 at -e line 1. uri -- Uri Guttman ------ u...@stemsystems.com -------- http://www.sysarch.com -- ----- Perl Code Review , Architecture, Development, Training, Support ------ --------- Gourmet Hot Cocoa Mix ---- http://bestfriendscocoa.com --------- -- To unsubscribe, e-mail: beginners-unsubscr...@perl.org For additional commands, e-mail: beginners-h...@perl.org http://learn.perl.org/
