$foo =~ s/([ =])/\\$1/g; where $foo is the variable in which you want to replace ' ' and '=' ------------- Piet le Roux mendes wrote:

Hello I need to hack somebody's else code but I don't know an iota about perl. It is a function which gets the full pathname for a file, however the pathname has spaces and = on it. How can I use the same variable but changing spaces for \-space and = for \=.

Thanks a lot.

Ed

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