Re: Re: Whats your favorite nonstandard regex quote char?

A word of caution re: using ' as a regex delimiter, if the regex includes vars that you want interpreted, the regex won't do what you want when you use 's--as in this case for instance.

$s ='25 {fred and barney} text 2.36 12.0 {bam bam} text {pebbles}';
$n=0;    $s =~ s'{.*?}'{$sub[$n++]}'g;
print $s;

25 {$sub[$n++]} text 2.36 12.0 {$sub[$n++]} text {$sub[$n++]}
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Re: Re: Re: Whats your favorite nonstandard regex quote char? by The Mad Hatter (Priest) on Apr 22, 2003 at 21:58 UTC
Ooh! Thank you for pointing out that caveat. It will no doubt someday save me hours of debugging time. ;-)	[reply]