Tip #9 from the Basic debugging checklist : YAPE::Regex::Explain
The regular expression:
(?-imsx:(ther*))
matches as follows:
NODE EXPLANATION
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(?-imsx: group, but do not capture (case-sensitive)
(with ^ and $ matching normally) (with . not
matching \n) (matching whitespace and #
normally):
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( group and capture to \1:
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the 'the'
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r* 'r' (0 or more times (matching the most
amount possible))
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) end of \1
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) end of grouping
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Use . instead. Also, with different delimiters, you can clean up the replacement string:
use warnings;
use strict;
my $test = "Here is the there";
$test =~ s{(ther.)}{<test>$1</test>}ig;
print "$test\n";
__END__
Here is the <test>there</test>
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