On 29 Oct 2022, at 22:02, ToddAndMargo via perl6-users <perl6-us...@perl.org> wrote: Hi All, I am trying to change / into \\\ This works: $ echo "a/b/c/d" | raku -ne 'my $x=$_; $x~~s:g|$(Q[/])|\\\\\\|;print $x ~ "\n"' a\\\b\\\c\\\d But this does not: $ echo "a/b/c/d" | raku -ne 'my $x=$_; $x~~s:g|$(Q[/])|Q[\\\]|;print $x ~ "\n"' aQ[\]bQ[\]cQ[\]d How do I put a literal string in the target of a regex? Many thanks, -T
On 10/29/22 13:07, Elizabeth Mattijsen wrote: > $ echo "a/b/c/d" | raku -ne 'say .subst("/", Q/\\\/, :g)' > Hi Elizabeth, Thank you for the subst workaround! Do you also know how to do a literal string in the target of the regex? -T