am a newbie...

[Vinod]

hi!!

I am a beginner with Perl. am rtying to use the repetition feature as
in -

print 'a'x5;

would print 'aaaaa'

I am trying to use it with regular expressions.

I am trying to replace an occurence of 'there' with 'aaaaa' but I dont
want to put it there explicitly.

I am trying something like....

s/there/'a'x5/;

which doesnt work.

Can someone give me some sort of an escape sequence...?

Thank you

Vinod

 

[Sam Holden]

hi!!

I am trying something like....

s/there/'a'x5/;

which doesnt work.

Can someone give me some sort of an escape sequence...?

s/there/'a'x5/e;

or:

$replace = 'a'x5;
s/there/$replace/;

The replacement is a quoted string, not an expression.

See perldoc perlop for details on what /e does.