[TriLUG] Perl substitution problem

[William Sutton via TriLUG]

use strict not required for my/our.  he did something else when he pasted 
his code.

Also, HTH does

print $string1 \n;


work in Perl?  It needs to be

print "$string1 \n";

otherwise, I'm looking at your question

William Sutton (Perl expert)

On Fri, 16 Jun 2017, Brian via TriLUG wrote:

> You need a
>
> use strict;
>
> for "my" to work, which Wes omitted probably for the sake of brevity.
>
> -B
>
>
> On 06/16/2017 01:07 PM, karl flores via TriLUG wrote:
>> 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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