[TriLUG] Perl substitution problem

[karl flores via TriLUG]

Error: Parse error on line 1:
my $string2 = 'this
^
Expecting 'STRING', 'NUMBER', 'NULL', 'TRUE', 'FALSE', '{', '[', got 'undefined'


On Fri, Jun 16, 2017 at 12:57 PM, Wes Garrison via TriLUG <trilug at trilug.org
> wrote:

> My Google-fu is not good enough to solve this simple problem.
>
> I am building some simple JSON structures by hand in Perl, and I need to
> escape double-quotes.
>
> my $string1 = 'this "should" work';
> $string1 =~ s/"/\\"/g;
> print $string1 \n;
> this \"should\" work
>
> ^ Yay!  it substituted correctly for both double-quotes!
>
> my $string2 = 'this "should"*,* work';
> $string2 =~ s/"/\\"/g;
> print $string2 \n;
> this \"should" work
>
> ^ the comma after the second double-quote broke the substitution. (and it
> breaks my JSON)
>
> Why?  What the heck am I missing?
>
> -Wes
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