Preserved Topic: Replacing and filtering scalars in Perl (Page 1 of 1)

How do all those nifty shorthand find-n-replace and filtering lines in Perl?

ex:
$onlyindexes =~ /^index\.html$/i
(or something..)


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Regular expressions are on of Perl's many cool tools. Here's a good tutorial that's easy to understand:
http://www.itworld.com/nl/perl/12072000/

HTH

oo.. neat-o keen! things got a lot easier when I figured out that they were called regexes..

so... um..... how do I go about replacing that expression?


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what to you mean by replace?

You want to replace everything that matches that with something else?

usually its

$variable =~ s/expression to check for/expresion to replace with/gieo

Where s means substitute gieo are all optional g means global i means case insensitive e indicates an expression o is the oppisite of g basically meaning only replace the first match.

ooh and a great tip especailly for when you are parsing things like directory names. the "/" can actually be any character so you could write it s#expr#replace#g if you don't want to worry about escaping all the slashes in things like directory paths.



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[This message has been edited by bitdamaged (edited 06-21-2002).]

oh, I see...

using 's/' instead of 'm/'

hey, this link is really cool.. http://www.wdvl.com/Authoring/Languages/Perl/PerlfortheWeb/pattern_matching.html


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The /o flag actually causes the regular expression containing variables to be compiled only once.

/g is usually the only flag I use.

whoops my bad like Slime I mostly only use g and i.




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