Text Replace, brackets

natalie · 07-13-2006

I want to replace every occurance of "[0:12:#abc():34]" with
"#abc(34)", but the following is not doing the trick:
perl -pi~ -e 's/[0:12:#abc():34]/#abc(34)/g' file.txt

How can I replace literal brackets? []
Natalie

imehesz · 07-14-2006

[ and ] are special characters in regular expression so you have to use \ to tell perl you actually mean [ and ]. ;) try this ...

Code:

perl -pi~ -e 's/\[0:12:#abc():34\]/#abc(34)/g' file.txt

07-13-2006	#1 (permalink)
natalie Junior Member Join Date: Jul 2006 Age: 38 Posts: 9	Text Replace, brackets I want to replace every occurance of "[0:12:#abc():34]" with "#abc(34)", but the following is not doing the trick: perl -pi~ -e 's/[0:12:#abc():34]/#abc(34)/g' file.txt How can I replace literal brackets? [] Natalie

07-14-2006	#2 (permalink)
imehesz Senior Member Join Date: Jul 2006 Age: 30 Posts: 258	[ and ] are special characters in regular expression so you have to use \ to tell perl you actually mean [ and ]. ;) try this ... Code: perl -pi~ -e 's/\[0:12:#abc():34\]/#abc(34)/g' file.txt __________________ -- iM

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