Re: substition in perl
Bart Van der Donck wrote:
dennisha...@xxxxxxxxx wrote:
s/PATTERN/REPLALCEMENT/
and explains that the operator searches a string for PATTERN and
replaces that match with the REPLACEMENT text.
My question then is this. What string is being searched? The
documention goes on to say that if no string is specified, the $_
variable is search.
PATTERN is searched and replaced by REPLACEMENT.
No. PATTERN is what's being searched for. $_ (or whatever variable is
bound do the s///) is what's being searched. Very different.
Paul Lalli
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