in reply to Regular Expression Problem

Your code looks correct, although as the other reply suggests if you wish to have an ampersand displayed in a browser you should probably use the '&' entity.

Have you verified that your form input contains what you think it does? For example no trailing whitespace, etc?

Steve
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Re: Re: Regular Expression Problem
by Anonymous Monk on Mar 29, 2004 at 14:42 UTC
    The problem isn't where I want to print the "&" or not but where the string matchs. See the ex;
    If you do this:
    my $test = "A C Test";
if($test=~s/\bA C Test\b/A&C Test/){print "<b>$test</b>";}

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    It will work. But if the value is coming from something like this:
    my $test_name = $in{'test_name'};
    It will nor work.
    That's my problem! Tks...
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      This is why I said "Have you verified that your text contains what you think it does?".

      Print it out and see!

      In the code you give above, for example, you're testing against $test - but getting the input into $test_name - which isn't being used!

      Steve
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        I think that problem starts even before.
        I have a link like:
        <a href=\"applic.pl?trans=edit&action=edit&name=$name>
        The value from the header isn't parsing the "&".
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      Have you tried using chomp to remove any trailing newlines? e.g. my $string = chomp($myinput);
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        I got the solution for this problem
        I encoded the "&" on the url like "%26".
        After I coded this to do the translation
                if($name=~/(.*)&(.*?)/)
            {

             $name=~s/(.*)&(.*?)/$1%26$2/;
              print $name;

         }
         else
         {
                  print $name;
         }

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        Thank you for all your help!
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        I think that problem starts even before.
        I have a link like:
        <a href=\"applic.pl?trans=edit&action=edit&name=$name>
        The value from the header isn't parsing the "&".
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