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Old 07-30-2006
perl search and replace pairs
Hello all
im facing some kind of problem i have this string :

functionA() $" "$ functionB("arg1") $" = "$

i will like to replace all the pairs of opening and closing "$" to be something like that

functionA() <#" "#> functionB("arg1") <#" = "#>
i cant of course do is with simple s/\$/<# and i dont want to build complex string parsing function for that , im sure perl have some quick regexp solution , can someone please help me here ?
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Old 07-30-2006
Will this work?

I used 2 regular expressions here. It can probably be done with just one.

Code:
perl -p -e "s/\\$\"/\<\#\"/g;s/\"\\$/\"\#\>/g"

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