使用Perl用特殊字符替换字符串

Question

I'm trying to replace a string like

</string§>

with

new string line 1
new string line 2

with perl on Linux.

The problem is, that it won't accept the < and > as well as the /.

This is what i got:

perl -i -pe 's/\<\/string§\>/new string line 1 \n new string line 2/se' file.xml

Can anyone help?

Thanks!

Answer 1

You don't need s and e modifiers and can also use an alternate regex demiter (other than / ) to avoid escaping:

perl -pe 's~</string§>~new string line 1 \nnew string line 2~' file.xml
new string line 1
new string line 2