Re: Dealing with Regexes for a specific replacement pattern

What you need are backreferences. Try:

s/338C(\d{3}C\d{3}C\S{8})/338C$1C/g
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Re: Dealing with Regexes for a specific replacement pattern by Abigail-II (Bishop) on Feb 21, 2004 at 11:19 UTC
Or even simpler: `s/(338C\d{3}C\d{3}C\S{8})/$1C/g` [download] Abigail	[reply] [d/l]
Re: Re: Dealing with Regexes for a specific replacement pattern by gridlock (Novice) on Feb 21, 2004 at 14:45 UTC
Thanks much! Appreciate it! /Gridlock a.k.a. Debashis "Codito Ergo Sum"	[reply]