((A & B)' | (A & C & (A & B & D)')); #### #!/usr/bin/perl use strict; use warnings; my $x = '((A & B)\' | (A & C & (A & B & D)\'))'; print "Given: $x\n"; $x =~ s/(\(.*?\))\'/\!$1/g; print "Calculated: ",$x,"\n"; #### Given: ((A & B)' | (A & C & (A & B & D)')) Calculated: (!(A & B) | !(A & C & (A & B & D)))