Re^7: using hashes

Hyphens aren't special outside of a character class. What makes you think they are at fault?

If your 'words' might contain punctuation, you can escape meta characters using quotemeta or synonymously \Q .. \E

s/\b\Q$find\E\b/$replace/g
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#11929 First ask yourself `How would I do this without a computer?' Then have the computer do it the same way.

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Re^8: using hashes by R56 (Sexton) on Sep 27, 2013 at 17:48 UTC
Imagine these values: banana => 25 bana => 20 bana-na => 15 na => 10 For the translation to, let's say: bana-na,banana Currently the output is: 20-10,25 That's what made me thought the hyphens were a special case...	[reply]
Re^9: using hashes by kennethk (Abbot) on Sep 27, 2013 at 21:26 UTC
No, but they are being marked as word boundaries, and so they pass the regex I gave before. For the situation you've described, the only obvious solution I can see is to traverse the key list from long to short as I've shown in Re^5: using hashes. Things get messy with replacement lists when your keys are not independent. #11929 First ask yourself `How would I do this without a computer?' Then have the computer do it the same way.	[reply]
Re^10: using hashes by R56 (Sexton) on Sep 27, 2013 at 22:36 UTC
I see... Thanks again!	[reply]