Hi,
I have a question regarding delaying interpolation of a variable when it is used in a regular expression. The below code snippet demonstrates the problem
%cat test.pl
#!/usr/bin/perl
use strict;
my $line = "System has tool zigzag version 3.6";
my $match = 'System\s+has\s+tool\s+([0-9a-zA-Z_-]+)\s+version\s+(.*)';
my $replace = 'System has tool $1 version ABC';
$line =~ s/$match/$replace/g;
print "Line after replacement: $line \n";
When I execute the above code the output I get is :
%./test.pl
Line after replacement: System has tool $1 version ABC
The output I need is :
Line after replacement: System has tool zigzag version ABC
How do I get $1 to be interpolated in the replacement pattern ? I tried other variants like : e,ee etc but none yeild the result I need.
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