On Mon, Oct 28, 2013 at 4:26 PM, Achim Gratz <Stromeko@nexgo.de> wrote:

> Peter Davis writes:
> > That was the first thing I tried, and Perl complained about an
> > undefined variable. I may have made a typo though.
>
> Nope, my error.  $1 gets clobbered by the second replacement.  So you'd
> want what you wrote or somewhat shorter:
>
> # hyperlinks
> s/\[\[([^]]*)\]\]/
>   my ($l, $o) = ($1, $1);
>   $l =~ s: :_:g;
>   "[[file:$l.org][$o]]"/gex;
>
>
Yes, that works beautifully, and is nice and concise.

Thank you!

-pd

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