Regex expression is matching more than once

tobias_hofer has asked for the wisdom of the Perl Monks concerning the following question:

Hi monks!

Following is making me crazy, I just want to delete the substring ".xml" from "..\MyXMLFile.xml" by a trim:

my $FileName = "..\\MyXMLFile.xml";
$FileName =~tr/(\.xml)$//d;
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But my string is getting to this: "\MyXMLFile" the leading dots are missing. How comes?

When I do it this way - with a search - it works fine..:

my $FileName = "..\\MyXMLFile.xml";
$FileName =~s/(\.xml)$//i;
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Why?

Any hints are highly welcome!
Best regards! Tobias

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Re: Regex expression is matching more than once by Corion (Patriarch) on Apr 22, 2013 at 07:54 UTC
`tr` replaces characters, while `s///` replaces substrings. Your code in fact removes all characters in the set `lmx.()$` from the target string. Update: Athanasius pointed out that I missed the dollar sign in what `tr` replaces. The expression given to `tr//` does not interpolate variables.	[reply] [d/l] [select]
Re^2: Regex expression is matching more than once by tobias_hofer (Friar) on Apr 22, 2013 at 08:02 UTC
Oh.. Thanks a lot! Next time I will read the perl doc more carefully! Promised! ;-) Cheers! Tobias	[reply]
Re: Regex expression is matching more than once (regex expressions don't do stuff) by Anonymous Monk on Apr 22, 2013 at 08:45 UTC
Here is a regex expression, it doesn't do anything my $rex = qr/(.)/; Operators do stuff, here is a regex inside an operator, the substitution operator, replace operator, s/// $captured_and_released =~ s/$rex/$1/; And match operator, m//atch operator, m// ( $xerox ) = $original =~ m/$rex/; The tr///ansliteration operator does not use regex expressions Remember the operator name, its the function that does stuff :)	[reply]
Re: Regex expression is matching more than once by Rahul6990 (Beadle) on Apr 22, 2013 at 08:47 UTC
Hi, `tz///` will treat .xml as four different independent character and tries replace occurrence of each character with nothing, as a result of which your output string does not have dots in it.Which is not the case with `s///` as it consider .xml as a single string and replace the combined occurrence with nothing.	[reply] [d/l] [select]