Re^3: matching / splitting within a substitution (simpler)

A simpler example to report is:

% perl -MO=Deparse -e "s{\[A\]}[s/\[B\]/C/g]g"
s[\[A\]][s/[B]/C/g]g;
-e syntax OK
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But I don't consider it a bug. If your delimiters are [] then \[ becomes [. If you want \[ then you'll need \\\[ (or \\[ also works if the square brackets balance).

So, inside qq[], [] and \[\] are the same. Much like "\g" and "g" are the same or '\g' and '\\g' are the same.

- tye

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Re: Re^3: matching / splitting within a substitution (simpler)
by PodMaster (Abbot) on Jul 16, 2003 at 07:16 UTC

C:\>perl -MO=Deparse -e" s{\[A\]}'s/\[B\]/C/g'g"
s[\[A\]][s/\\[B\\]/C/g]g;
-e syntax OK
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