Pattern Match Question..

[Rodney]

I want to replace all instances of the combination of \" with \"

Using the Regex code below, I end up replacing ALL " with &guot; and all
\" with \&guot;
How can I make it ONLY replace the combination of \" ?

$TextBlockToConvert =~ s/\"/\quot;/g;

NOTE:
The combination of \" may or may not have other characters butting up
against either or both sides of it.


Thanks,
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[John W. Krahn]

Rodney wrote:

>
> I want to replace all instances of the combination of \" with \"
>
> Using the Regex code below, I end up replacing ALL " with &guot; and all
> \" with \&guot;
> How can I make it ONLY replace the combination of \" ?
>
> $TextBlockToConvert =~ s/\"/\quot;/g;

The backslash character is special in double quoted strings so you have
to escape it if you want a literal backslash character.

$TextBlockToConvert =~ s/\\"/"/g;



John
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[Tim Hammerquist]

John W. Krahn graced us by uttering:

> Rodney wrote:

> > I want to replace all instances of the combination of \"
> > with \"
> >
> > Using the Regex code below, I end up replacing ALL " with
> > &guot; and all \" with \&guot; How can I make it ONLY
> > replace the combination of \" ?
> >
> > $TextBlockToConvert =~ s/\"/\quot;/g;

What this actually does is change all <"> to <&quot;>; the <\> is
ignored.

> The backslash character is special in double quoted strings so
> you have to escape it if you want a literal backslash
> character.
>
> $TextBlockToConvert =~ s/\\"/&quot;/g;

The left side is right, but I think the OP wanted a <\> in his
result as well. If that's the case, the following will work:

$block_to_cnvt =~ s#\\"#\\&quot;#g;

or

# uses capturing parens to reduce
# ambiguity in replacement string
$block_to_cnvt =~ s#(\\)"#$1&quot;#g;

HTH,
Tim Hammerquist
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[Rodney]

That did it perlfectly!

Thanks John.
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