in reply to Replacing string with its length in Regex

Why not just:

my $s = s/_*(X+)_*/length($1) . ','/ge;
$s =~ s/,$//;

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Re: Re: Replacing string with its length in Regex
by petral (Curate) on Jul 29, 2001 at 12:28 UTC
    even simpler:
    $r =~ s/(^_+|_+$)//g;

$r =~ s/_+/,/g;

$r =~ s/(X+)/length$1/ge;

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