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Here is the line that is giving me problems:

$Falbum =~ s/$edir\/.\/$Fartist\///;

The problem is that $Fartist sometimes has grouping characters "()[]"
which screws up the search.

How do I get it to treat these characters as if they were "\(\)\[\]"?

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Mark Healey
marnkews ãt healeyonline döt com

Mark Healey wrote:
> Here is the line that is giving me problems:
>
> $Falbum =~ s/$edir\/.\/$Fartist\///;
>
> The problem is that $Fartist sometimes has grouping characters "()[]"
> which screws up the search.
>
> How do I get it to treat these characters as if they were "\(\)\[\]"?

perldoc -f quotemeta

jue

On Sat, 24 Jun 2006 06:32:29 +0000, Jürgen Exner wrote:

> Mark Healey wrote:
>> Here is the line that is giving me problems:
>>
>> $Falbum =~ s/$edir\/.\/$Fartist\///;
>>
>> The problem is that $Fartist sometimes has grouping characters "()[]"
>> which screws up the search.
>>
>> How do I get it to treat these characters as if they were "\(\)\[\]"?
>
> perldoc -f quotemeta

This doesn't help when I'm using some meta characters in my search
strings. I need something that only does it to the variables.

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Mark Healey
marnkews ãt healeyonline döt com

Mark Healey wrote:
> On Sat, 24 Jun 2006 06:32:29 +0000, Jürgen Exner wrote:
>>Mark Healey wrote:
>>>
>>>$Falbum =~ s/$edir\/.\/$Fartist\///;
>>>
>>>The problem is that $Fartist sometimes has grouping characters "()[]"
>>>which screws up the search.
>>>
>>>How do I get it to treat these characters as if they were "\(\)\[\]"?
>>
>>perldoc -f quotemeta
>
> This doesn't help when I'm using some meta characters in my search
> strings. I need something that only does it to the variables.

It was a hint that does help if you add some imagination. Following it
up by reading about \Q in "perldoc perlre" would also be useful.

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Gunnar Hjalmarsson
Email: http://www.gunnar.cc/cgi-bin/contact.pl

Mark Healey wrote:
> On Sat, 24 Jun 2006 06:32:29 +0000, Jürgen Exner wrote:
>
>> Mark Healey wrote:
>>> Here is the line that is giving me problems:
>>>
>>> $Falbum =~ s/$edir\/.\/$Fartist\///;
>>>
>>> The problem is that $Fartist sometimes has grouping characters
>>> "()[]" which screws up the search.
>>>
>>> How do I get it to treat these characters as if they were
>>> "\(\)\[\]"?
>>
>> perldoc -f quotemeta
>
> This doesn't help when I'm using some meta characters in my search
> strings. I need something that only does it to the variables.

Maybe I'm missing something but is there a problem with
$Fartist = quotemeta($Fartist);

jue

Mark Healey <> wrote:
> On Sat, 24 Jun 2006 06:32:29 +0000, Jürgen Exner wrote:
>
>> Mark Healey wrote:
>>> Here is the line that is giving me problems:
>>>
>>> $Falbum =~ s/$edir\/.\/$Fartist\///;
>>>
>>> The problem is that $Fartist sometimes has grouping characters "()[]"
>>> which screws up the search.
>>>
>>> How do I get it to treat these characters as if they were "\(\)\[\]"?
>>
>> perldoc -f quotemeta
>
> This doesn't help when I'm using some meta characters in my search
> strings.


Yes it does.


> I need something that only does it to the variables.


quotemeta only does it where you ask it to do it, so ask it to
do it "to the variables":

$edir = quotemeta $edir;
$Fartist = quotemeta $Fartist;
$Falbum =~ s#$edir/./$Fartist/##; # Look Ma! No backslashes!

or, lookup the \Q that the docs mention:

$Falbum =~ s#\Q$edir\E/./\Q$Fartist/##;


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Tad McClellan SGML consulting
Perl programming
Fort Worth, Texas

Jürgen Exner wrote:
> Mark Healey wrote:
>> On Sat, 24 Jun 2006 06:32:29 +0000, Jürgen Exner wrote:
>>
>>> Mark Healey wrote:
>>>> Here is the line that is giving me problems:
>>>>
>>>> $Falbum =~ s/$edir\/.\/$Fartist\///;
>>>>
>>>> The problem is that $Fartist sometimes has grouping characters
>>>> "()[]" which screws up the search.
>>>>
>>>> How do I get it to treat these characters as if they were
>>>> "\(\)\[\]"?
>>> perldoc -f quotemeta
>> This doesn't help when I'm using some meta characters in my search
>> strings. I need something that only does it to the variables.
>
> Maybe I'm missing something but is there a problem with
> $Fartist = quotemeta($Fartist);

Is this a reference to the great Petomane?



DS

On Sun, 25 Jun 2006 09:11:15 -0500, Tad McClellan wrote:

> Mark Healey <> wrote:
>> On Sat, 24 Jun 2006 06:32:29 +0000, Jürgen Exner wrote:
>>
>>> Mark Healey wrote:
>>>> Here is the line that is giving me problems:
>>>>
>>>> $Falbum =~ s/$edir\/.\/$Fartist\///;
>>>>
>>>> The problem is that $Fartist sometimes has grouping characters "()[]"
>>>> which screws up the search.
>>>>
>>>> How do I get it to treat these characters as if they were "\(\)\[\]"?
>>>
>>> perldoc -f quotemeta
>>
>> This doesn't help when I'm using some meta characters in my search
>> strings.
>
>
> Yes it does.
>
>
>> I need something that only does it to the variables.
>
>
> quotemeta only does it where you ask it to do it, so ask it to
> do it "to the variables":
>
> $edir = quotemeta $edir;
> $Fartist = quotemeta $Fartist;
> $Falbum =~ s#$edir/./$Fartist/##; # Look Ma! No backslashes!
>
> or, lookup the \Q that the docs mention:

Like most open source perldoc sucks. By the time you know enough to pick
the right terms to look for you don't need it.

> $Falbum =~ s#\Q$edir\E/./\Q$Fartist/##;

That wasn't on my cheat sheet but I did eventually find it.

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Mark Healey
marnkews ãt healeyonline döt com

Mark Healey schreef:

> Like most open source perldoc sucks. By the time you know enough to
> pick the right terms to look for you don't need it.

I know I don't need you.

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Affijn, Ruud

"Gewoon is een tijger."

Mark Healey <> wrote:

> Like most open source perldoc sucks.


So long!


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Tad McClellan SGML consulting
Perl programming
Fort Worth, Texas