Perl s/// Function

Description

This is not a function. This is the regular expression-substitution operator. Based on the regular expression specified in PATTERN, data is replaced by REPLACE. Like m//, the delimiters are defined by the first character following s.

Syntax

Following is the simple syntax for this function:

s/PATTERN/REPLACE/

Return Value

This function returns 0 on failure and number of substitutions made on success.

Example

Following is the example code showing its basic usage:

#!/usr/bin/perl -w

$string = "This is Test";
# this will replcase Test with Best.
$string =~ s/Test/Best/;

print "$string\n";

When above code is executed, it produced following result

This is Best