Re: Search a perl reference and replace characters

Further more the input listed is in:
my $text = "above"
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Huh?

Do you wish to convert 'newlines', or 'carriage returns'? My guess is probably newlines. If that's the case, you may be looking for something like this:

$input =~ s{\n}{</p&rt;<p&tk;}g

Or maybe you really do mean carriage returns, in which case it would be:

$input =~ s{\r}{</p&rt;<p&tk;}g

Your entities look funny to me though, but that's a different issue.

Regular expressions, including 'substitutions' are covered in perlre, perlrequick, and perlretut. Those documents will go a long way toward clearing the haze regarding string manipulation and pattern matching in Perl. They're well worth the time they take to read.

Dave

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Re^2: Search a perl reference and replace characters by ww (Archbishop) on Jun 02, 2006 at 18:06 UTC
my guess (from the context) is that OP has typos repeatedly; that intent was for each of those &rt; was meant to be: >	[reply]
Re^2: Search a perl reference and replace characters by Anonymous Monk on Jun 02, 2006 at 13:22 UTC
I always go for the safe approach ... Pseudocode ... Find Replace chr(13).chr(10) with "<br>"; Find Replace chr(13) with "<br>"; Find Replace chr(10) with "<br>"; This seem to cover Winslows, Mac and Unix flavours of text input ...	[reply]