On Dec 30, 2003, at 4:51 PM, Randy Brown wrote:
When I try the following, perl reads the * as a literal character, instead of my intent as a global value. Anyone see what I am missing?
perl -pi -e "s/<provider-url>file:*<\/provider-url>/REPLACED/g" testfile.txt
you might want to revisit
perldoc perlretut
since what you are in the midst of is a regular expression and it is not clear to me that you really wanted to assert
zero or more ":"
rather than say
zero or more "any characters"
which would have been
perl -pi -e "s/<provider-url>file:.*<\/provider-url>/REPLACED/g" testfile.txt
"." is the "wild card" character, which you want to have zero or more of, yes?
ciao drieux
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