(tye)Re: How to make only two of three substitutions?

[tye]

    $str =~ s#/##   for  1,2; or     s#(/\s*){2}\z## for example. But these assume you slurp the entire file into a string. Perhaps you are doing a perl -pe kind of thing...     perl -i.old -pe '$sawSlash++ && s#/## if m#/#' (updated again. Thanks, blakem. I added "$str =~" to match what I was thinking and what I had tested.)

        - tye (sààaaaà x y z aziez,s $e $s deedeydi,t $ex,print)

[blakem]

s#/##   for  1,2;

That won't work. $_ gets aliased in the for loop to the constants '1' and '2'. You could get away with:

for my $i (1,2) { s#/## }

Though, its not real pretty...

-Blake