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tobyink
<p>Maybe a little something like this?</p>
<code>
my $string = q{
1. This is just a sample.
2. This is to check
3. How a set of values
4. can be replaced by another
5. set of values and that too
6. in the most efficient way.
};
my %replacements = (
'1.' => 'a.',
'2.' => 'b.',
'3.' => 'c.',
'4.' => 'd.',
'5.' => 'e.',
'6.' => 'f.',
);
my $regexp = join '|', map quotemeta, keys %replacements;
$string =~ s/($regexp)/$replacements{$1}/g;
print $string;
</code>
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<tt>perl -E'sub Monkey::do{say$_,for@_,do{($monkey=[caller(0)]->[3])=~s{::}{ }and$monkey}}"Monkey say"->Monkey::do'
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