[ILUG] regex.. needed in a hurry!

From: Donncha O Caoimh (donncha.ocaoimh at domain tradesignals.com)
Date: Wed 28 Jul 1999 - 17:33:49 IST


I have to search and replace a string in a number of files but the perl
script I'm using to search and replace is giving an error on the "(" in
the string. I tried \( or (( or even \\( to no avail. I'm just trying to
print a normal "(", and not the start of a group :|

This is the error:
unmatched () in regexp at ./sar.pl line 87, <INFILE> chunk 1.

Line 87 is a simple

$_ =~ s/"$searchfor"/"$replacewith"/;

Any help would be much appreciated as this has to be done really
quickly!

Donncha.



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