Petri Rautakoski wrote: > > Hi! Hello,
> I'm making a text replace and my text to search includes a metacharacter (. > The text to be searched has been stored in a scalar for example $search. > The text where the search will be made has been stored for example in a scalar > $text. Here is what I'm doing: > > $search = "for example (this)"; > $text = "looking for example (this)"; > $toBeReplaced = "that"; > > $text =~ s|$search|$toBeReplaced|; > > That doesn't work, if you make it this way: > > $text =~ s|for example \(this\)|$toBeReplaced|; > > works fine, but how can I backslash the metacharacters in a scalar? If you are just searching for plain text strings then you can do this instead: substr $text, index( $text, $search ), length( $search ), $toBeReplaced; John -- use Perl; program fulfillment -- To unsubscribe, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] For additional commands, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] <http://learn.perl.org/> <http://learn.perl.org/first-response>
