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From:
Ravi Malghan
Date:
April 28, 2003 10:29
Subject:
help with substiution
Message ID:
20030428172939.59541.qmail@web41303.mail.yahoo.com
Hi: I am not able to perform a substition in the
following string

$_ = "attr1 val1\nattr2 val2\nattr3 val3";

I want to substitute "attr2 val2" with "attr2 val4"
s/.*(attr2 .*)\nattr3.*/"attr2 val4"/;

The above substitution does not seem to be working.
Could somebody help?

Thanks
Ravi


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