[ale] sed

[james.sumners at gmail.com (James Sumners)]

I'm not regex wizard, but I'm pretty sure the $ is being interpreted
as a regex command and not a reference to the variable 'email'. You
would have to at least escape it with a backslash.

2008/3/28 Terry Bailey <terry at bitlinx.com>:
>
>  Hi,
>
>  I have a Perl problem.
>
>  $email = xyx at abc.net
>
>  -e 's/laplace/$email/'
>
>  sed will not completely replace "laplace"  with the value in $email because
> everything is lost starting with the "@" and ending with the "c".
>
>
>  Any help would be appreciated.
>
>  Thanks.
>
>  Terry Bailey
>
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