Re: Variable/multi-line substitution

droman@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx wrote:

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I try to substitute as follows:

s/$dateIRIG_CHT 6/$dateIRIG_CHT 6\n$dateMBET_CHT 6\n.../i;

$dateIRIG_CHT is a valid variable name and , in your case, is likely to have no value set for it. You can use curly brackets to clarify what you want thus: ${date}IRIG_CHT

Try
 use strict;
 use warnings;
as I believe is suggested in the posting guidelines for this newsgroup.
This ought to catch this sort of error for you.


Obviously, I'm a Perl newbie and am getting the syntax wrong or using
substitution for too difficult of a task, because I can't get it to
work.

I suspect you could simplify your code by making better use of regular expressions in substitutions - you may not need a separate $date variable at all.
.

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