Re^2: Repeated substitution on 1 side of a line only

Thank you for the reply. I was hoping that because I'm using in-line modification from the command line, that it could somehow be a 1-liner rather than a for loop?

To answer your question, yes, the colon is the delimiter.

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Re^3: Repeated substitution on 1 side of a line only by AnomalousMonk (Archbishop) on Dec 16, 2016 at 15:33 UTC
The `for`-loop is just for the purpose of showing an example with various strings. Concentrate on the `s///` and what it's doing — and in particular, see the update. No reason the `s///` couldn't just be dropped into something like the one-liner you show in the OP. Give a man a fish: `<%-{-{-{-<`	[reply] [d/l] [select]
Re^4: Repeated substitution on 1 side of a line only by dspivey (Initiate) on Dec 16, 2016 at 15:58 UTC
Yep, that works! Thank you!	[reply]
Re^3: Repeated substitution on 1 side of a line only by RonW (Parson) on Dec 17, 2016 at 00:07 UTC
I was hoping that because I'm using in-line modification from the command line, that it could somehow be a 1-liner `REM Windows CMD prompt perl -F: -e "$F[0] =~ s/-/_/g; print join(':',@F);"` [download] `# Linux/Unix/Cygwin shell perl -F: -e '$F[0] =~ s/-/_/g; print join(":",@F);'` [download] Disclaimer: Not tested. Explanation: `-F:` turns on auto-split (`-a`) and auto-loop (`-n`) and sets the split character to ':'	[reply] [d/l] [select]