$1 outputting no characters in regex

Question

A couple people just recommended removing the curly brackets from ${1}, but that didn't seem to change anything; still getting nothing for $1.

I am trying to put the stuff within parentheses into the value of a src attribute in an img tag:

$toc_line =~ s!<inlineFig.*?(\.\./pics/ch09_inline99_*?\.jpg)*?</inlineFig>!<img src="$1" alt="" />!g;

The img tags still come out with src="" instead of, eg, src="../pics/ch09_inline99_00".

Thx

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Duplicate: http://stackoverflow.com/questions/344460/1-outputting-no-characters-in-regex-output

Answer 1

I think you want to add dots before the second and third stars.