Re: Including special characters in a search and replace


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Re: Including special characters in a search and replace

by Caron (Friar)

on Jan 15, 2005 at 06:28 UTC ( [id://422467]=note: print w/replies, xml )

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in reply to Including special characters in a search and replace

Use an index for your array of fields, combined with the /g modifier. This one works:

#!/usr/bin/perl -w
use strict;
my $line =
    "00,00,00,00,00,00,00,00,00,00,00,00,00,00,00,00,01,00,00,00,"
   ."02,00,01,00,39,00,39,00,39,00,39,00,30,00,30,00,30,00,30,00,"
   ."00,00,00,00,00,00,00,00,00,00,";

my @fields = (100, 101, 102, 103);

my $index =0;

$line =~ s/\b39\b/$fields[$index++]/g;

print $line;
__END__
output:
00,00,00,00,00,00,00,00,00,00,00,00,00,00,00,00,01,00,00,\ 
00,02,00,01,00,100,00,101,00,102,00,103,00,30,00,30,00,30, \
00,30,00,00,00,00,00,00,00,00,00,00,00,
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See perlre for an explanation of the modifiers I have used here.