in reply to Re: Regular Expression Problem
in thread Regular Expression Problem

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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Re: Regular Expression Problem
by skx (Parson) on Mar 29, 2004 at 14:53 UTC

    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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    steve.org.uk
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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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Re: Re: Re: Regular Expression Problem
by dawn (Novice) on Mar 29, 2004 at 15:00 UTC
    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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