Re: Easy one for my fellow Monks

This is because the open paren has a special meaning in regular expressions -- it tells Perl that you may want to talk about whatever ends up matching between the parens later. Because you want a literal paren, you need to escape it. Try s/\(/,(/;

perl -pe '"I lo*`+$^X$\"$]!$/"=~m%(.*)%s;$_=$1;y^`+*^e v^#$&V"+@( NO CARRIER'

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(shockme) Re: Re: Easy one for my fellow Monks by shockme (Chaplain) on Dec 20, 2001 at 03:14 UTC
Q: Why wouldn't it be s/\(/,\(/; ? Don't you have to escape the second open paren as well? If things get any worse, I'll have to ask you to stop helping me.	[reply]
(tye)Re: Easy one for my fellow Monks by tye (Sage) on Dec 20, 2001 at 03:22 UTC
Parens are special characters to regular expressions. Only the first part of s/// is a regular expression. The replacement part is a string. Parens aren't special in strings (though $ and @ are, for example, so you'd have to escape those if you wanted a literal $ or @). - tye (but my friends call me "Tye")	[reply]