Re: A serch and replace question

That's because | is special to the regexp engine, and using hex escapes isn't going to disable that. Try this:

    $data =~ s/\x0d\x0a[|][|]/||/g;   # No /s needed.
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Re: Re: A serch and replace question by benizi (Hermit) on Oct 31, 2003 at 18:27 UTC
Not true. Using -Mre=debug (output trimmed a bit) `/a\|b/` yields: Compiling REx `a\|b' 1: BRANCH(4) 2: EXACT <a>(7) 4: BRANCH(7) 5: EXACT <b>(7) 7: END(0) minlen 1 [download] but `/a\x7cb/` yields: Compiling REx `a\x7cb' 1: EXACT <a\|b>(3) 3: END(0) anchored `a\|b' at 0 (checking anchored isall) minlen 3 [download] (tested w/ 5.005_03, 5.6.0, and 5.8.0)	[reply] [d/l] [select]
Re: Re: A serch and replace question by ChuckularOne (Prior) on Oct 31, 2003 at 19:23 UTC
I figured using Hex escapes would get around that issue. I guess I was wrong. Thanks. -Chuckularone	[reply]