In regex, the ^ indicates beginning of line/variable. You must escape it, but
even more important, you have the value in $a, but you are not running your regex vs
$a, but the default $_.
So, you should try:
$a =~ s/\^/_/g;
This should change the ^ to _.
Wags ;)
-----Original Message-----
From: siren jones [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]]
Sent: Monday, February 04, 2002 13:37
To: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Subject: s/// Question from Newbie
I'm trying to replace the ^ in a filename, which by the way, I did not
create.
Here is the filename: Wind19^144^0.0^100^.grib
Here is my test code:
$a = "144^0.0^100^";
$a = s/^/_/g; # replace ^ with underscore character for ftp
print "$a,"\n";
exit;
Here is what gets printed:
144^0.0^100^
What am I doing wrong with the substitution operator? Thanks in advance.
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