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Well *actually* it does not. Your test string does not *actually* contain the edge cases ( xx at the begining and end of the string):o) If your test string had contained the edge cases you would no doubt have noted the following failure case.....

my $a = "xx|xx|xx|xxxx|xx|xxx|xx|xx|xx"; $a =~ s/(?<=\|)xx(?=(\||$))/x x/g; print $a; __DATA__ xx|x x|x x|xxxx|x x|xxx|x x|x x|x x

Here is one way to fix your regex:

$a =~ s/(?<=\|)|^xx(?=(\||$))/x x/g; # and here is a way using the zero width boundary assertion \b # that will match | ^ or $ but also matches any non aphlanumeric # so would potentially fail on '|xx,xx|' type strings # if they exist in practice as your real data is no doubt # not really xx..... $a =~ s/\bxx\b/x x/g;

cheers

tachyon

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In reply to Re: Re: Re: A complex recursive regex,help by tachyon
in thread A complex recursive regex,help by OM_Zen

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