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Re3: Open to suggestions on a search and replace..

by Hofmator (Curate)
on Apr 12, 2002 at 11:38 UTC ( [id://158544]=note: print w/replies, xml ) Need Help??


in reply to Re: Re: Open to suggestions on a search and replace..
in thread Open to suggestions on a search and replace..

You can use a positive lookahead assertion to avoid having to reinsert $1. $line =~ s/^(?=R.*\$SUB=)<\*\d+>//;

aehhm, this won't work. The lookahead doesn't move the position in your regex, so you are effectively looking for /^<\*\d+>/ which isn't there. Instead you would need a look behind assertion but they are only available for constant length.

As I understand the file format there are no other digits in angle brackets starting with a star. So why not simply write: s/<\*\d+>//;

Update: As of Rhodium's clarification of the specs, I would now fully recommend IO's solution.

-- Hofmator

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Re: Re3: Open to suggestions on a search and replace..
by Rhodium (Scribe) on Apr 12, 2002 at 13:18 UTC
    Hey Hof,
    As I understand the file format there are no other digits in angle brackets starting with a star.
    That is something I don't want to assume..
    Rhodium

    The <it>seeker</it> of perl wisdom.

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