Re: Regex matching on anywhere but the beginning or end of a line

In a similar vein, you could match the characters before and after using a character class that says "anything but quote", then put those into the replacement string like this:

$x =~ s/([^"])"([^"])/$1""$2/g;
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Re: Re: Regex matching on anywhere but the beginning or end of a line by xmath (Hermit) on Feb 23, 2003 at 00:19 UTC
Eh, no, multiple consecutive quotes is probably perfectly legal, and your substitution wouldn't handle them right.	[reply]
Re: Re: Re: Regex matching on anywhere but the beginning or end of a line by steves (Curate) on Feb 23, 2003 at 00:32 UTC
Um, yes ... in a similar incorrect vein. Forget mine and use xmath's suggestion.	[reply]