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Jun 30, 2008, 12:24 AM
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On Sun, 29 Jun 2008, Alexander Burrows wrote:
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> Hello again all. Been a while since I've posted here but needed some help on
> a regex I was trying to write.
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> $line =~ tr/(\(|\)|<|>)/(\(|\)|\<|\>)/g;
Simplest approach is to make a hash of the substitutions and use
an "e" executed regexp
my %hash = ('('=>'(',')'=>')','<'=>'<','>'=>'>');
$line =~ s/([()<>])/$hash{$1}/eg;
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> This does not work at all in perl so I found so I replaced the tr with s and
> the search part works as expected but the replace does not. I've been trying
> to read around forums and regex documents for perl but they seem unorganized
> and cryptic. So any help would be appreciated.
>
> -Alexander
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