My regular expression should take [id=###]blahblah[/id] and replace it with <a href="/cgi-bin/coolcode.pl?id=###">blahblah</a>.
The following should work:
my $text = "[id=###]blahblah[/id];
my $targetURL = "/cgi-bin/coolcode.pl?";
$text =~ s/.*[(id=.*)](.*)[\/id]/<a href=\"$targetURL\1\">\2<\/a>/gs;

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  1. The backslash character escapes the quote and forward slash characters to make sure they are inserted literally into the target expression.
  2. the expressions between parentheses are stored as \1 and \2.
  3. the gs option ignores line breaks in the source and treats spaces as characters.

In reply to Re: Monks' Expression by sierrathedog04
in thread Monks' Expression by sinan

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