really quick programming question!!! Perl and reg ex's

[evident]

Hi all,

it's late and my brain isnt functioning right, if any of you guys can help me i would greatly appreciate it.

i am basically just trying to to a find and replace in perl, and then outputting the result to a file.

i have got $temp="foo";
i have the variable $_ = "Bunch of text";

i want to replace "text" w/ the string stored in $temp.

i've tried using a regular expression, s/text/$temp
but in my output file i get Bunch of $temp

but i would like to have Bunch of foo

how would i go about doing this?

 

[Aluvus]

Make sure you're putting double quotes ("") around the regex, rather than single quotes ('').

Disclaimer: I don't actually do Perl, but this might help anyway.

 

[Skeeedunt]

$text = "foo";
$_ = "Wrong text forum text";

$_ =~ s/text/$text/g;

print OUTFILE $_;

OUTFILE should have "Wrong foo forum foo". If you only want the first instance replaced, take out the trailing g in the regexp.

Oops fixed.