Re: Re: Pattern Matching with REGEXP: Is the match position trackable?

One could also trap the 5+ and subtract the length from pos, esp. if worried about compatability as this is rather new (5.6) IIRC.

-- perl -pew "s/\b;([mnst])/'$1/g"

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Re: Re: Re: Pattern Matching with REGEXP: Is the match position trackable? by luthor (Initiate) on Sep 18, 2002 at 16:17 UTC
First of all, thank you all very much for replying to my problem. I will start going through all of your suggestions/fixes and come back later today :)	[reply]