Re^2: Replace strings with "("

That was the first thing I tried. The problem with that was, the strings weren't modified. It remained test("test.
I don't know if this info is relevant, but I will share with you if it helps. I am using active perl on windows 2000.
The regex I tried to use came from another site on active perl. I can't remember which site it was from though. There it was mentioned to put the paren inside a open and close paren and quote the paren in the string. i.e. (\()
By the way I did try your solution just in case. But I still have my initial result. Any help would be appreciated. Thanks

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Re^3: Replace strings with "(" by leriksen (Curate) on Jan 30, 2005 at 03:12 UTC
Are you reading these in from a file and seeing that their not changed in the file ? If so, try this recipe for in-place editing `prompt> perl -i -pe 's/"t/"GC_t/' file_to_be_changed.txt` [download] The -i flag tells perl to make changes (like regex substitutions) in the original file, dont make a backup The -pe is two options joined together - -p is print every line in the supplied file back out to itself (thats what -i and -p together do - print every line back to the same file) The -e tells perl to apply the regex to every line in the file - and hence the "t lines become "GC_t before being printed back out. You can find more options like these in "perldoc perlrun", or Perl Command-Line Options. Cheers ...it is better to be approximately right than precisely wrong. - Warren Buffet	[reply] [d/l]
Re^3: Replace strings with "(" by Frantz (Monk) on Jan 30, 2005 at 00:45 UTC
with perl 5.8.4 on linux(debian unstable), the following code `1 #!/usr/bin/perl 2 3 use strict; 4 5 my $string = 'test("test ... bla bla bla")'; 6 $string =~ s/test\("test/test\("GC_test/; 7 8 print $string."\n";` [download] return `test("GC_test ... bla bla bla")` perhaps the probleme is your verion of perl	[reply] [d/l] [select]