If you only want to place parens around the input, then you can just place it
parans like:
$ARGV[0] = '(' . $ARGV[0] . ')';
In your original code, you want to work with $ARGV[0] but the regex w/o inputs
assumes:
$_ =~ s/$ARGV[0]/\($ARGV[0]\)/g;
which is not what you are after.
If you really want the regex then:
$ARGV[0] =~ s/$ARGV[0]/\($ARGV[0]\)/g;
would work for you.
Wags ;)
-----Original Message-----
From: Martin Karlsson [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]]
Sent: Sunday, November 04, 2001 03:54
To: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Subject: regexp with $ARGV
Could anyone please show me the way to think here?
If I execute a script with an argument, e.g monkey, then monkey will be
found in $ARGV[0]. If I then want to highlight the word monkey by
putting it in parentheses, i thought something like
s/$ARGV[0]/\($ARGV[0]\)/g
would do the trick; however it won't.
Thanks,
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