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Re: Basic Regular expression

by NetWallah (Canon)
on Feb 09, 2017 at 17:29 UTC ( [id://1181553]=note: print w/replies, xml ) Need Help??


in reply to Basic Regular expression

You can achieve your desired output by using this re: 
$a =~/^(.+)(e|r)?(.*)$/;

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Update: Just noticed - this is almost the same as choroba's suggestion.

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