Re: regex substitution

The previous examples either ignore greedy matching or attempt to to emulate it. I believe this is what you're looking for:

$text =~ s/#(\w+?)#/$hash{$1}/g;

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Re: Re: regex substitution by chromatic (Archbishop) on Nov 06, 2001 at 06:28 UTC
That would be a problem if `\w` included the octothorpe. It doesn't, so it's not a problem.	[reply] [d/l]