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Well, I guess that could be done, as another user setting. Something like 
s{(?<=Re:) \(\w+\)}{}g;

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might even get the job done, although I haven't tried it enough. And then you put it through the collapse sub to put those Re:s together.

$& has its uses too, in this case it was the best way I could come up with. ;-)

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Re^3: Title Re: collapsing revisited
by tadman (Prior) on Jun 08, 2002 at 20:23 UTC
    I suppose what I was wondering was why you left your match unmemorized, and then used $&. I've been lead to believe that's bad form, since once you open that Pandora's box ($`, $& and $'), all your regexes become slower as a result.
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      Oh. I had actually forgot that. Do you know if that is the same thing with @- and @+? I can use those instead, at the price of higher obfuscation... :)

      Thanks for the heads up!

      (I just *had* to change the Re: style *grin*).

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        (Me too. :-))

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Re^3: Title Re: collapsing revisited
by Aristotle (Chancellor) on Jun 08, 2002 at 21:06 UTC
    Like tadman++ noted the problem is that once you use it, all regexes anywhere in the script become slower - not likely to be tolerable in the context of the Everything engine.. And this one in particular is pretty simple: $title =~ s{((?:Re: ){2,})}{"Re(" . length($1)/4 . "): "}ge; Works a treat for your test cases.

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