Re: [Omaha.pm] s(a)(AAA) -- wow

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Subject: Re: [Omaha.pm] s(a)(AAA) -- wow
From: Hugh Jarce <hjarce2001@yahoo.com>
Date: Wed, 14 Jul 2004 20:42:03 -0700 (PDT)
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Jay Hannah wrote:

> These work too:
>
> s[a][AAA]g
> s{a}{AAA}g
>
> What arcane crap *can't* you do in Perl?

Also, note that the replacement operand may have different

delimiters to the regex operand. So these work too:

s[a]/AAA/g

s<a>'AAA'g

When the replacement operand's delimiters are single quotes,

no variable interpolation is done.

Hugh

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