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Perl 5's /x modifier ignores whitespace in the regex, but it doesn't seem to ignore whitespace in the replacement (and I don't know enough perl to fix this). However, if you want to match whitespac...
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user53100
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2021-09-23T13:20:57Z (about 3 years ago)
Perl 5's `/x` modifier ignores whitespace in the regex, but it doesn't seem to ignore whitespace in the replacement (and I don't know enough perl to fix this). However, if you want to match whitespace, it will have to be escaped. See the [perlre§/x and /xx](https://perldoc.perl.org/perlre#/x-and-/xx).
```
perl -pe '
s/
\$to\ =\ ".*";$
/\$to = example\@example.com;
/xg
' PATH
```
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