On Tue, Oct 05, 2004 at 03:33:31PM -0500, Jason Pepas wrote: > here's a perl question for the list. > > how does one resolve the ambiguity between octal references and > backreferences followed by numbers? > > example: > > to replace foobar with fubar, I could use the following: > > s/foo(bar)/fu\1/ > > but let's say I wanted to replace it with fubar01: > > s/foo(bar)/fu\101/ > > unfortunately, \101 is interpreted as octal 101 instead of backreference > 1 followed by 01. > > any ideas? > > -jason
I'm no perl expert, but this seems to work: s/foo(bar)/fu\1\00001/ '\000' should be the null character (a.k.a. '\0'), and I guess it just strips certain non-printables (or maybe just the null character). Or maybe this will have some freaky effect if you use it. *shrug* hth danb -- Daniel Brown www.utacm.org www.cs.utexas.edu _______________________________________________ Siglinux mailing list [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://machito.utacm.org/mailman/listinfo/siglinux
