Re: Multible search and replace?

[Joey Hess <joey@kite.ml.org>]

> This is especially nifty because "from" may be a perl regular expression
> (including parentheses pairs enclosing substrings of itself) and "to"
> may include $1, $2... refernces to such pairs- very handy.

Well, not with the example I gave you can't, but if you use something like
this, you can use all those wonderful perl regexp tricks:

#!/usr/bin/perl -i.bak
$find=shift; $replace=shift;
while (<>) { eval "s/$find/$replace/g"; print }

-- 
               "true - do nothing, successfully" - - true (1)


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