regex help

[cginewbie]

I have a problem
I have some $INPUT{input1}, $INPUT{name2}, , ....$INPUT{whatver}
in a file, and I want to change them all in one line
so that every $INPUT{inputX} will have the value of $OUTPUT{inputX}

I do something like
$file =~ s/$INPUT{(.)+}/$OUTPUT{1}/g;
but it does not work?

thanks

 

[wzrd]

Can you rephrase that? I didnt understand correctly ..


wzrd

 

[cginewbie]

hi,
The problem is, I have a file that has hash variables in it (i.c %INPUT). After I read the file into an array, and I want the values of the harsh (%INPUT) to kick in. Since The file exist after the harsh has been defined, so the values of the harsh in the string won't change.

My question is that how do I do change every harsh values in regex... I can do in multiple regex's like this

$string =~ s/\$INPUT{name}/$INPUT{name}/g;
$string =~ s/\$INPUT{address}/$INPUT{address}/g;
...
But i think there should a way to make it in one regex, but just dont know how..
I have tried
$string =~ s/\$INPUT{(.)+}/$INPUT{$1}/g;
but it won't work

 

[greadey]

Try putting the + inside the brackets of your $1 variable. Your $1 is only going to hold one character.

greadey.