Re: Replace the nth occurence

[Kenosis]

in reply to Replace the nth occurence

I like your solution for replacing the nth occurrence of a character within a string. I don't know whether the following is a 'better suggestion,' but what about initializing $n (for the nth) to the desired occurrence:

use strict;
use warnings;

# Replace second comma
my $n   = 2;
my $str = 'a,b,c,d';
$str =~ s/(,)/!--$n ? '|' : $1/ge;
print $str;

Output:

a,b|c,d