Perl Programming Language :: text substitution


	text substitution I have a text file with many occurances of the following text: dev/group I want to replace the (above) text with the following: $ dev/group But, I am having trouble when I use this code: s/dev/group/$ dev/group due to use of $ and / Any tips on how I can do the replacement? Thanks P - Hide quoted text - pula58 wrote: > I have a text file with many occurances of the following text: > dev/group > I want to replace the (above) text with the following: > $ dev/group > But, I am having trouble when I use this code: > s/dev/group/$ dev/group > due to use of $ and / > Any tips on how I can do the replacement? s\|(dev/group)\|\$ $1\|g; -- Gunnar Hjalmarsson Email: http://www.gunnar.cc/cgi-bin/contact.pl - Hide quoted text - pula58 <p@pauls.seanet.com> wrote: > I have a text file with many occurances of the following text: > dev/group > I want to replace the (above) text with the following: > $ dev/group > But, I am having trouble when I use this code: > s/dev/group/$ dev/group > due to use of $ and / > Any tips on how I can do the replacement? Put a backslash in front of the meta characters that you want to be literal: s/dev\/group/\$ dev\/group/; or use single quote as the delimiter: s'dev/group'$ dev/group'; -- Tad McClellan SGML consulting t@augustmail.com Perl programming Fort Worth, Texas On May 23, 6:44 pm, Tad McClellan <t@augustmail.com> wrote: - Hide quoted text - > pula58 <p@pauls.seanet.com> wrote: > > I have a text file with many occurances of the following text: > > dev/group > > I want to replace the (above) text with the following: > > $ dev/group > > But, I am having trouble when I use this code: > > s/dev/group/$ dev/group > > due to use of $ and / > > Any tips on how I can do the replacement? > Put a backslash in front of the meta characters that you > want to be literal: > s/dev\/group/\$ dev\/group/; > or use single quote as the delimiter: > s'dev/group'$ dev/group'; > -- > Tad McClellan SGML consulting > t@augustmail.com Perl programming > Fort Worth, Texas- Hide quoted text - > That did the trick, thank you very much (to you both)! P.