Simple subtitution

[jpillonel]

Hello,

I have a simple question.

I run a perl script on a windows server which use blat to send an email with an attachement. But blat doesn't support to have a blank in the filename.

My fiename is here:

my $emaillink="./mail/$start_time.$_[0].msg";

The variable is for example equal to : "./mail/200701231020.Cust Nomade.msg"

So I need to remove all blanks in this variable.

I tried this regular expression but it delete the also the $start_time variable:

$emaillink_new =~ s// /g;

Does anyone have an idea ?

Thanks in advance

 

[feherke]

Hi

You reversed the order : the space comes first, the nothing after.

$emaillink_new =~ s/[highlight red] [/highlight]//g;

But I would prefer to remove all whitespace characters ( [tt]\s[/tt] ) :

$emaillink_new =~ s/[red]\s[/red]//g;

Feherke.

http://rootshell.be/~feherke/

 

[jpillonel]

Excellent thanks, works fine.

Is there any way to replace / by a \ (useful for windows paths).

Because this syntax doesn't works:

$emaillink_new =~ s///\/g;

Thanks for your help

 

[feherke]

Hi

$emaillink_new =~ s/[red]\[/red]//[red]\[/red]\/g;

[gray]# or[/gray]

$emaillink_new =~ s[red],[/red]/[red],\\,[/red]g;

Feherke.

http://rootshell.be/~feherke/

 

[KevinADC]

you don't need to change / to \ for windows. Windows isn't picky about which way the slash goes.

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