Hi,

I'm trying to do a substitution in a file

I am trying to match:

<input type="checkbox"
    ng-model="data.mydebts.loan[0]"

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I then want to switch it out so it says

<input type="checkbox"
    ng-model="data.mydebts.loan[0]" label="loan"

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I am trying the following code:

while ($my_file =~ /(input type=\"checkbox\".*?(\w+)\[0\])/sg) {

$my_file =~ s/$1/$1 label="$2"/s;

};

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But, although the match works when I print it out ($1 prints the line I want to match), it doesn't work when I use it in the substitution.

Even if I replace the substitution with a literal switch like

s /$1/TEST/s;

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I think this is because the match($1) has a newline and some spaces in it

If that's the case, how do I tell it to use exactly what's in the match in the substitution (and why doesn't it do that anyway)?

Or have I probably made a mistake somewhere?

Thanks for your help

MorayJ

In reply to Substituting with match containing newline and space characters by MorayJ

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