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Old 03-18-2008
cooldude cooldude is offline
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Yes, I used $1 instead of \1. I think it makes no difference.
When I have patterns that don't have new lines in them, such as:

Code:
  func_a(3);

Doing

Code:
perl -p -e "s/func_a\((.*)?\);/func_b($1,\n6)/s" < file |more

works as expected.