PERL Beginners - regex help

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regex help

Colin Johnstone

2004-09-24, 3:56 am

Gidday all,

Im trying to write a regex to convert spaces to underscores and ampersands =
to 'and' can someone help.

$safeString =3D "News & Events";
$safeString =3D~ s/&/and/g;
$safeString =3D~ s/\s/_/g;

Regards

Colin=20

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Colin Johnstone

2004-09-24, 3:56 am

I worked it out myself

$safeString =3D "News & Events";
$safeString =3D~ s!&!and!g;
$safeString =3D~ s!\s!_!g;

thank you
Colin

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Subject: regex help

Gidday all,

Im trying to write a regex to convert spaces to underscores and =
ampersands to 'and' can someone help.

$safeString =3D "News & Events";
$safeString =3D~ s/&/and/g;
$safeString =3D~ s/\s/_/g;

Regards

Colin=20

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Ramprasad A Padmanabhan

2004-09-24, 3:56 am

On Fri, 2004-09-24 at 11:01, Johnstone, Colin wrote:
> Gidday all,
>
> Im trying to write a regex to convert spaces to underscores and ampersands to 'and' can someone help.
>
> $safeString = "News & Events";
> $safeString =~ s/&/and/g;
> $safeString =~ s/\s/_/g;
>
> Regards
>
> Colin
>

What you have written is perfectly fine .. why do you think it will not
work ?
you may consider however writing '\&' instead of '&'

Bye
Ram

Raymond Raj

2004-09-24, 3:56 am

Hi!

what's problem in these regular expressions.. every thing correct!

do you need to convert one or more than one match into single replacement
then regexp should be

$safeString =~ s/\s+/_/g;

-----Original Message-----
From: Johnstone, Colin [mailto:Colin.Johnstone@det.qld.gov.au]
Sent: Friday, September 24, 2004 11:02 AM
To: beginners@perl.org
Subject: regex help

Gidday all,

Im trying to write a regex to convert spaces to underscores and ampersands
to 'and' can someone help.

$safeString = "News & Events";
$safeString =~ s/&/and/g;
$safeString =~ s/\s/_/g;

Regards

Colin

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Colin Johnstone

2004-09-24, 3:56 am

Thank you I musthave just coded something wrong, your right they do =
work. Sorry!

-----Original Message-----
From: Raymond Raj [mailto:raymond@shafika.vetri.com]
Sent: Friday, September 24, 2004 3:55 PM
To: Johnstone, Colin; beginners@perl.org
Subject: RE: regex help

Hi!

what's problem in these regular expressions.. every thing correct!

do you need to convert one or more than one match into single =
replacement
then regexp should be

$safeString =3D~ s/\s+/_/g;

-----Original Message-----
From: Johnstone, Colin [mailto:Colin.Johnstone@det.qld.gov.au]
Sent: Friday, September 24, 2004 11:02 AM
To: beginners@perl.org
Subject: regex help

Gidday all,

Im trying to write a regex to convert spaces to underscores and =
ampersands
to 'and' can someone help.

$safeString =3D "News & Events";
$safeString =3D~ s/&/and/g;
$safeString =3D~ s/\s/_/g;

Regards

Colin

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