Re: replace nth occurrence of |

Using the embedded counter in the regex is too clever for its own good. And why use a delimiter that appears in the data? That is just making your job harder than it needs to be.

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Re^2: replace nth occurrence of \| by perl197 (Novice) on Sep 24, 2014 at 17:36 UTC
I'm parsing data in a log file of which the last data appended to the line consists of a unix command line entry. As commands submitted by the user may or may not include a \|, (or any command line character) I wanted to replace my chosen delimiter within the command text with a benign value so as to not error out the bulk load to a table. By and large there will rarely be one \| never mind 3, but wanted to cover my bets just in case.	[reply]

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Re^2: replace nth occurrence of |
by perl197 (Novice) on Sep 24, 2014 at 17:36 UTC

I'm parsing data in a log file of which the last data appended to the line consists of a unix command line entry. As commands submitted by the user may or may not include a |, (or any command line character) I wanted to replace my chosen delimiter within the command text with a benign value so as to not error out the bulk load to a table. By and large there will rarely be one | never mind 3, but wanted to cover my bets just in case.

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