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in thread Replacing environment variables

while (<DATA>) { # match any dollar followed by a number # of non whitespaces (unicode safe) # and replace it by then corresponding # environment variable if ( s/\$(\P{IsSpace}+)/$ENV{$1}/ ) { $undefinedVars++ unless $ENV{$1}; } print; } if ( $undefinedVars > 0) { print "\n\nERROR: There were $undefinedVars undefined variables!\n +"; } __DATA__ bigcompany.product.part.path=$PATH bigcompany.product.part.widgit=$WIDGIT bigcompany.product.part.battery=$BATTERY bigcompany.product.part.frobnicator=$FROBNICATOR


holli, /regexed monk/

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Re^4: Replacing environment variables
by loris (Hermit) on Oct 18, 2006 at 14:03 UTC

    Thanks for the nice concise solution, holli. Looking at it, I realise that I have missed out the case where the environment variable represents a directory and may be followed by a subdirectory (see updated OP). Thus the regexp would have to be a little different.

    loris


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