A little regex help?

Hey Folks,

This isn't actually a perl question but since you folks ar the regex
experts I thought you might be able to help.

I want to do a search and replace in my text editor (that supports regex)
for any line that begins with print( and ends with "); and replace the
ending "); with \n"); where the line doesn't alredy end in \n");

ex:

print("foo");

becomes:

print("foo\n");

Thanks.

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$line='print ("foo")';

$line=~s/^(print #anchor to beginning of string
.* #match any text
\)) #match closing parenthesis (need to escape
character)
/$1\n/x; #having wrapped match in () can use memory
variable
#and append newline.

print $line; #print ("foo")\n

Ivan, not sure of the 'flavour' of your regex machine so will need to
look up how to use backreferences. Probably \1. The x modifier at
the end is just so I can comment the code for explanations.

s/^(print.*\))/$1\n/;

hth
j



"Ivan Marsh" <> wrote in message news:<>...
> Hey Folks,
>
> This isn't actually a perl question but since you folks ar the regex
> experts I thought you might be able to help.
>
> I want to do a search and replace in my text editor (that supports regex)
> for any line that begins with print( and ends with "); and replace the
> ending "); with \n"); where the line doesn't alredy end in \n");
>
> ex:
>
> print("foo");
>
> becomes:
>
> print("foo\n");
>
> Thanks.