Regular expression find and replace

[mufka]

Is there a way to use a regular expression find and replace to locate a string and trim out unwanted characters. For example I want to search for (--1234--) and replace with (1234).

 

[audiopro]

Just a basic substitution

$string=~ s/--1234--/1234/g;

or substitute the values for scalars.
The 'g' changes all occurences of --1234-- in $String

Keith

http://www.studiosoft.co.uk

 

[mufka]

What if 1234 is variable? Could be 1256, 8127, etc.

 

[KevinADC]

s/\-\-(\d+)\-\-/$1/g;

OK, next what-if.




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- Kevin, perl coder unexceptional!

 

[audiopro]

As per original post

or substitute the values for scalars.


Keith

http://www.studiosoft.co.uk