Re: Quick question on regex

Your problem is elsewhere. The . was not removed by that regexp. Or maybe you're not using strict (bad!) and really did forget to put the quotes around YYYYMMDD_something.xyz.

my $filename = 'YYYYMMDD_something.xyz';
my $DATE     = '20061124';
$filename =~ s/YYYYMMDD/$DATE/i;
print($filename, "\n");  # 20061124_something.xyz
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Re^2: Quick question on regex by Melly (Chaplain) on Nov 24, 2006 at 23:27 UTC
...and yet another v. good reason to always use strict. I wouldn't normally mention it, but it seems a bit more insidious than the normal misspelt variable... BTW OP, you've probably realised, but, in that context, the "." is interpreted as a string concatenation character. Tom Melly, tom@tomandlu.co.uk	[reply]
Re^2: Quick question on regex by narashima (Beadle) on Nov 24, 2006 at 17:54 UTC
correct thanks!	[reply]