Re: Perl substitution not working

[frozenwithjoy]

in reply to Perl substitution not working

Well, the good news is that s/,,,/,/g should definitely work. The bad news is that your script is doing something weird. :P A couple things to be aware of:

• you don't need to make @line an array. You can just write something like foreach my $line (@data).
• you are using $line for both foreach loops. You are trying to use the same namespace for two different things. Maybe change the second one to foreach my $L1_line split...
• Disregard this: The actual reason you aren't substituting properly is that you are printing @L1, but that array never gets modified by your substitution which acts on $line.

[muba]

The actual reason you aren't substituting properly is that you are printing @L1, but that array never gets modified by your substitution which acts on $line.

Not true:

my @L1 = qw(Abc aBc abC);
for my $line (@L1) {
    $line =~ s/a/_/i;
    print "\@L1: <", join(", ", @L1), ">; \$line: <$line>\n";
}

__END__
@L1: <_bc, aBc, abC>; $line: <_bc>
@L1: <_bc, _Bc, abC>; $line: <_Bc>
@L1: <_bc, _Bc, _bC>; $line: <_bC>