Actually what I meant was, does the regex itself work.
If the regex structure is bad then using it in vars won't work either.
Always a good principle of programming :
If you can't do it dynamically make sure it works static.
Instead of trying to use(1|2) type you could create a hash from a file or database
Then do :
%names = (
Orig => New,
Orig2 => New2,
);
$names{$input_orig} = $input_new;
$names{'orig4'} = 'new4';
foreach $name(keys %names) { s/$name/$names{$name}/g; }
#that would substitute 4 original values with four new values
-----Original Message-----
From: Adriano Allora [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]]
Sent: Sunday, December 29, 2002 5:21 AM
To: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Cc: Dan Muey
Subject: Re: single quote and substitutions
Venerd�, 27 Dic 2002, alle 20:11 Europe/Rome, Dan Muey ha scritto:
> Have you tried doing the regex without the vars?
> s/(name1|name2)/(surname1|surname2)/g;
> Does that do what you want?
I'd prefer do not do it in this way, because I don't know how many (and
what kind of) $originals and $news I'll have.
My aim is to create a regexp to extract by another file the lists and
to use them in this script.
> This may work, try :
>
> {
> s/$original/$new/g;
> print;
> }
>
oooh! It's always the same thing: when there's a better way to do
something it's always the simplier too.
all'adr
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