> -----Original Message-----
> From: Barry Jones [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]]
> Sent: Tuesday, June 04, 2002 1:15 PM
> To: Beginners @ Perl (E-mail)
> Subject: Escaping characters
>
>
> Hi,
> I'm trying to do a patter match for everything contained within
> {{ stuff }}. Now I've gotten this to work just fine with ** stuff **,
> ^^ and a several others, but I can't get curly braces to work
> and I have
> no idea why. I've tried escaping them with \ and not doing and what
> have you but it just won't work. Here's the code, maybe you
> can help me
> out. Note: the bold tags are just there while I'm testing
> it, not what
> it's going to be used for.
>
> $body =~ s/\{\{(.*?)\}\}/\<b\>$1\<\/b\>/g;
Hmm, works fine for me:
$body = "Hello {{bold}} world!\n";
$body =~ s/\{\{(.*?)\}\}/\<b\>$1\<\/b\>/g;
print $body;
Prints: Hello <b>bold</b> world!
(n.b. you don't need to escape the < and >)
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