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Re: Replacing a given character starting with the xth occurence in a string

by ZZamboni (Curate)
on May 21, 2001 at 04:16 UTC ( [id://81887]=note: print w/replies, xml ) Need Help??

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  1. or download this
    $n=2;    # x-1
$chr="e";
$rep="1";
$a="Terence and Philip are sweet";
while ($a=~s/^((?:.*?$chr){$n})(.*?)$chr/$1$2$rep/) {}
  2. or download this
    1 while ($a=~s/^((?:.*?$chr){$n})(.*?)$chr/$1$2$rep/);

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