Regular Expression matching variable name

[jerijeri]

Help,

I'd like to replace all merge fields with a corresponding variable.

Currently we have one line
s/\\!(\$[\w\[\]\{\}\'\"]*)\\/$1/eeg;

handling all the replacements.

example we have
\!$FORM{Text1}
to

\!$FORM{Text20}
and $Text1 to $Text20 are replaced.

We'd like to change the style

\!$FORM{Variable_Name}\ to yyVariable_Nameyy

yyOWNERyy would be replaced with value for $OWNER
yyBOATyy would be replaced with $BOAT

I'm just not getting anywhere with the new RegExp. Any help appreciate.

Thanks,

Jer

 

[justice41]

what did you try that isn't working?
Here's one option.

s/yy(.*?)yy/${$1}/g;

if that's off the mark then you'll have to better describe what your data looks like.

jaa

 

[jerijeri]

Well I what I had was close to what you answered. Your solution was the correct answer to the question I asked, unfortunately I discovered my thinking was flawed.

What I needed to do was the following:

s/yy(.*?)yy/${\$FORM{$1}}/g;

This will allow the substitutions for any field names we create.

I did discover one problem. With this substitution,

Upper Case J U and Z never appear. Lower case q and z also never appear. Any ideas why?

Thanks,

Jer