Maybe someone can help?
Okay, so I'm trying to do something in perl, a sort of mail merge kind
of concept.
I have a block of text, something like:
Blah blah blah blah ::company foo foo foo foo ::address
I also have a bunch of variables populated with data ($company,
$address, $city, $state,
On Tue, 2004-04-20 at 11:30, Bob Bell wrote:
Can you share code? I don't see why you'd have a problem.
$ perl -pe '$tag=MyTag;s/::tag/$tag/g;' foo ::tag ::other
foo MyTag ::other
Sure... I think I didn't make the request totally clear anyway...
(BTW, this is part of a trouble ticketing
On Tue, Apr 20, 2004 at 11:47:06AM -0400, brian [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
On Tue, 2004-04-20 at 11:30, Bob Bell wrote:
Can you share code? I don't see why you'd have a problem.
$ perl -pe '$tag=MyTag;s/::tag/$tag/g;' foo ::tag ::other
foo MyTag ::other
Sure... I think I didn't make the
Brian wrote:
Every s/ operation I come up with always ends up replacing ::tag with
the literal $tag.
Perl's DWIM features usually pick up a single variable in the replacement part
and do the right thing, but you can add a 'e' modifier to the end of the substitution
to cause perl to
On Tue, 2004-04-20 at 11:54, Bob Bell wrote:
$ perl -pe '$tag=MyTag;$other=MyOtherTag;s/::(\w+)/${$1}/ge;' foo ::tag
::other
foo MyTag MyOtherTag
Key bit there is /e.
Worked perfect! Thanks Bob, and Jim, for the help.
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