Re: [MacPerl] Question - Substitution

[Chris Nandor <pudge@pobox.com>]

At 15.47 -0500 1998.12.23, Mark Manning/Muniz Eng. wrote:
>                @theInfo =~ s/\s$theName\s/ <a
>href="c$j.html">$theName<\/a> /g;

You cannot do that.  In this case, @theInfo will be taken as in scalar
context, so you are really doing:

  scalar(@theInfo) =~ s/MATCH/REPLACEMENT/g;

And you cannot substitute on that value.

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