subroutine as search string?

2001-06-27 Thread Noah Sussman
Hello, I am wondering how i can use a subroutine as the search string for s//. Specifically, I am trying to search through a large number of HTML documents which contain an arrangement of similar (not identical!) table cells. All I want to do is rearange the order of the cells, but it seems inne

Re: subroutine as search string?

2001-06-27 Thread Peter Scott
At 02:31 PM 6/27/01 -0400, Noah Sussman wrote: >Hello, I am wondering how i can use a subroutine as the search string for >s//. > >Specifically, I am trying to search through a large number of HTML documents >which contain an arrangement of similar (not identical!) table cells. Check out HTML::Ta

Re: subroutine as search string?

2001-06-27 Thread Me
s/// and friends first parse their contents as double quoted strings, before ever considering the content as a regex. So you can do: $foo = '[a-'; $bar = 'z]'; s/$foo$bar//gi; and it will work (stripping letters). Furthermore, you don't need any dynamic behavior for the search par

Re: subroutine as search string?

2001-06-27 Thread Noah Sussman
Emerson > From: "Me" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> > Date: Wed, 27 Jun 2001 16:25:00 -0500 > To: "Noah Sussman" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>, <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> > Subject: Re: subroutine as search string? > > s/// and friends first parse their contents as dou