Perl monking (was Menu{Master,Maestro,etc} question(s)

[Jay R. Ashworth]

On Mon, May 14, 2007 at 02:56:09PM -0400, Jay R. Ashworth wrote:
> I actually ended up with:
> 
> perl -pi.bak -e 'BEGIN {$label=shift; $sub=shift;}
>         if (/^$label:/)
> 		s/^(.+:[^:]+")[^"]+(".*)/$1${sub}$2/;' $2 $3 $1
> 
> You forgot the if clause.  The trailing semicolon, too, in the -e, but
> I suspect that's optional.
> 
> Testing now.

And teh answer is:

MsUs-1:/appl/filepro/dddtmp # mmreplace ./prc.jra tstdate replacement
syntax error at -e line 3, near ")
    s/^(.+:[^:]+")[^"]+(".*)/$1${sub}$2/"
Execution of -e aborted due to compilation errors.

I *thought* it might be the unescapedness of those double quotes, but
quoting them doesn't change the error message.

Ideas?

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