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in reply to search and replace

Dude, perlrequick, Regexp::English, Regexp::Common, Iterator::Files, ARGV::readonly

s{^\Qmail xmlfeedback -s \E(.*)$}{mail -s $1 xmlfeedback}sgx; s{^mail xmlfeedback -s ("feed invalid for agent \d+")\s*$}{mail -s $1 +xmlfeedback}sgx;

use Regexp::English; my $re = Regexp::English -> start_of_line -> literal('mail xmlfeedback -s') -> remember -> literal('"feed invalid for agent ') -> multiple -> digit -> end -> literal('"') -> end -> zero_or_more -> whitespace_char -> end -> end_of_line; print $re; __END__ (?^:^mail\ xmlfeedback\ \-s(\"feed\ invalid\ for\ agent\ (?:\d+)\")(?: +\s*)$)

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Re^2: search and replace
by Anonymous Monk on Sep 28, 2012 at 08:15 UTC
    use Regexp::English; my $re = Regexp::English -> start_of_line -> literal('mail xmlfeedback -s ') -> remember -> zero_or_more -> non_newline -> end -> end_of_line; print $re; __END__ (?^:^mail\ xmlfeedback\ \-s\ ((?:(?s)[^\n]*)$))