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Re: Substituting a comma only when it is preceded and followed by a bracket

by Logicus (Initiate)
on Nov 03, 2011 at 01:54 UTC ( [id://935543]=note: print w/replies, xml ) Need Help??


in reply to Substituting a comma only when it is preceded and followed by a bracket



use Modern::Perl;

$_= 'blah blah, blah blah blah (blah, blah, blah), blah, blah';

while($_=~ s@\(([^\)]*?)h,@\($1h;@gs){}

say;

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Output : blah blah, blah blah blah (blah; blah; blah), blah, blah
Not quite what was asked for, but it does produce the requested output :P
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Re^2: Substituting a comma only when it is preceded and followed by a bracket
by Logicus (Initiate) on Nov 03, 2011 at 01:57 UTC

    Here's the proper one;

    
while($_=~ s@\(([^\)]*?),@\($1;@gs){}

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      Oh hang on, ok there was no check to see if the comma was followed by a bracket, so if there was no close bracket, it would replace every comma to the right of the open bracket, which technically would be incorrect because the task specified there to be a following bracket and a single bracket by itself would not count. However as long as the two brackets are there it works fine.
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