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Re^3: Regex problem
by toolic (Bishop) on Aug 02, 2007 at 16:08 UTC
    Does this help? 
    #!/usr/bin/env perl
use warnings;
use strict;
my $value = '"sample1\*sample2\*sample3*sample4*sample5"';
print 'original string: ', $value, "\n";
$value =~ s#\\\*#STAR#g;
$value =~ s/\"//g;      # now remove double quotes
print 'output string:   ', $value, "\n";

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    Here is the output: 
    original string: "sample1\*sample2\*sample3*sample4*sample5"
output string:   sample1STARsample2STARsample3*sample4*sample5

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    I am assuming your original string already has double quotes in it.
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      $value =~ s/\"//g;      # now remove double quotes

      Minor point, double-quotes (and single-quotes) are not regular expression metacharacters so they don't need to be escaped.

      $value =~ s/"//g;

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      would suffice.

      Cheers,

      JohnGG

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