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Old 04-07-2011
Replace single quote with two single quotes in perl
Hi I want to replace single quote with two single quotes in a perl string.
If the string is <It's Simpson's book> It should become <It''s Simpson''s book>
# 2  
Old 04-07-2011
Code:
echo "<It's Simpson's book>" | sed "s/'/''/g"
<It''s Simpson''s book>

# 3  
Old 04-07-2011
Code:
perl -e '$p="<It'"'"'s Simpson'"'"'s book>";$p=~s/'"'"'/'"''"'/g;print $p,"\n";'

# 4  
Old 04-07-2011
Thanks Pravin and Tene. I did not want to use sed inside perl script. By looking at Pravin's post I figured out the solution.
If the string is
Code:
It's  Simpson's book

And I want it to become like
Code:
It''s  Simpson''s book

And if the first string was stored in a variable $var then I used the foll code:
Code:
$var=~ s/\'/\'\'/g;

And it worked.
Thank you all. Smilie
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