Re: regular expressions and setting variables?

[zzapper <david@xxxxxxxxxxxxxx>]

"William G. Scott" <wgscott@xxxxxxxx> wrote in
news:157E3510-D220-4C1C-A452-93DE96DA4363@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx:

> Hi folks:
>
> I?m trying to emulate how iTunes changes some names of directories it
> creates based on names of artists.  For example, albums by the group
> R.E.M. are stored in a directory it creates called R.E.M_
>
> The final full-stop is replaced with an underscore, I assume to avoid
:
>
> JUNK=R.E.M.
> print ${JUNK}| perl -p -e 's|\.$|_|g?
>
> It returns
> R.E.M_
>
>
> But if I try to do this:
>
> print ${JUNK/\.$/_}
>

JUNK=R.E.M.
print ${JUNK/\.(#e)/\_}




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