Changing substitution delimiters : substitution « Regular Expression « Perl






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  3. substitution

Changing substitution delimiters

    

#!/usr/bin/perl -w

$path = "/usr/bin";

# Change /usr/bin to /usr/local/bin.
$path =~ s{/usr/bin} </usr/local/bin>;

print "New path: $path.\n";








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