Perl: Getting back reference from s modifier

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03-18-2008

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You dropped the -p so you're not reading your input any longer. Also note that the -e needs to go last, it says "the script is not in a file; the next argument is the script".

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perl -0777 -p -e 's/func_a\((.*)?\);/func_b(\1,\n6)/s' < file | more

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Thanks. I had to add the global replace modifier and the put the non-greedy modifier inside the grouping.

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perl -0777 -p -e 's/func_a\((.*?)\);/func_b(\1,\n         6);/gs' < file

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