In simple terms, if you quote your regex, it ceases to be a regex and becomes a non-interpolated string instead. If that doesn't make sense to you, I recommend you read perlintro, as the anonymous monk suggested. It's pretty clear you're missing some very fundamental understanding of very basic concepts in Perl.

Another option for trying to figure out what's going on is reading the quotes in Perl tutorial (written by yours truly a couple years ago).

You might also consider purchasing or borrowing a copy of the book Learning Perl and reading the first few chapters.

print substr("Just another Perl hacker", 0, -2);
 - apotheon
CopyWrite Chad Perrin

In reply to Re^3: changing the path name to unix style. by apotheon
in thread changing the path name to unix style. by jesuashok

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