in reply to Regex help/ Lua parse

You could save yourself one match by replacing
if ($line =~ m/^\s*terminal\s=\s"([^"]+)"\s*$/) { $line =~ s/$1/$change/; }
with
$line =~ s/^(\s*terminal\s=\s")([^"]+)("\s*)$/$1$change$3/;

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Re^2: Regex help/ Lua parse
by marquezc329 (Scribe) on Oct 26, 2012 at 20:53 UTC
    Thank you. Modified all occurrences like this.