G'day FloydATC,

"Not sure if this counts as "cool use" ..."

I thought so. I now have a copy in ~ken/local/bin/. Thanks. (++ when the Vote Fairy next visits)

"I would love for someone to adopt this and put it on CPAN so myself and others can get easy access to it"

Is there a reason you can't do this yourself? Take a look at How to submit a script to CPAN.

"There's one annoying limitation; overlapping matches don't behave the way they should, and I can't find a way to fix it."

You'll need to document this in a little more detail than "the result can be... interesting" and "don't behave the way they should".

-- Ken

In reply to Re: "em" - Emphasize text using regular expressions by kcott
in thread "em" - Emphasize text using regular expressions by FloydATC

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