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From: painter@sequoia.execu.com (Tom Painter)
Newsgroups: comp.lang.perl
Subject: $& after a case-insensitive search
Message-ID: <32947@sequoia.execu.com>
Date: 26 Feb 91 23:31:10 GMT
Organization: Execucom Systems Corp
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I'm having a little problem with the $& notation.  I haven't seen any
mention of this in the book.  It seems that the string that is matched
is actually the string that appears in the script rather than the
actual match from the input.  This results in problems when there is a
case difference.  Observe:

Input:

This is in a file.
THIS IS IN A FILE, TOO.

Script:
#! /usr/local/bin/perl -n
	m/FILE/i;
	print $` . $& . $';

Output:
This is in a FILE.
THIS IS IN A FILE, TOO.

Note that the word file in the first line has changed case.  

#include <typical-PERL-questions.h>

Am I missing something?  Is this fixed after PL41? Is there
a work-around?

Thanks 

Tom
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