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ufmale 08-14-2012 01:41 PM
Regular express in perl confusion
 
Can someone help me please? I cannot figure out what this statement does.

$text =~ s/\'/\\\'/g;

j-ray 08-15-2012 01:44 AM
It replaces all ' in $text with \' if they are not escaped with \


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