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pDale wrote:
> On 7/15/06, John W. Kennedy <jwkenne@xxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:
>> But you can do it without using eval:
>>
>> use strict;
>> use warnings;
>> my $p1 = '^([^0-9]*)([0-9].*)$';
>> my $p2 = '"'.'$2 $1'.'"'; #Note wrapping it with double quotes
>> my $str = 'abc123xyz';
>> $str =~ s/$p1/$p2/ee; #Note double e
>> print $str, "\n";
>
> Yes, that works too! I like not using eval (it makes me feel "dirty" :) ).
>
> Did you "quote-out" the double-quotes just to make them more obvious? Because
> $p2 = '"Incl. $1"';
> works just as well.
Partly to make it stand out, and partly because your original message
said something about gathering the data from a file, where you wouldn't
have included the quotes in the first place.
--
John W. Kennedy
"The blind rulers of Logres
Nourished the land on a fallacy of rational virtue."
-- Charles Williams. "Taliessin through Logres: Prelude"
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