Re: [SLUG] Stupid Regex questions..

[Scott Howard <scott@xxxxxxxxxx>]

On Mon, Jul 10, 2000 at 07:07:44PM +1000, Anthony Rumble wrote:
> 
> s/\$ord\{/\$ord\-\>\{/g
> 
> Why doesn't that work?

In what?  Regex in perl is different to regex in sed, etc.

What are you trying to do? I know what it does, but have no idea what you're
trying to get it to do!

milliways:~$ perl -ne "if (s/\$ord\{/\$ord\-\>\{/g) { print; }"
$ord{ 				<--- I typed this
$ord->{				<--- as expected, it returned this
milliways:~$

Also, there's no need to quote the - or >, so you could write this as :
milliways:~$ perl -ne "if (s/\$ord\{/\$ord->\{/g) { print; }"
$ord{
$ord->{
milliways:~$ 

  Scott.