"Why would you want to use sed when the Perl regexes are far far far more powerful?

If you feel limited in your command of Perl regexes, I really think that the first thing you want to do is to really start mastering the Perl regexes.

In my humble defense; I made note of this on two occasions early in this thread.

But yes. Agreed.

My choice of referring to SED in this case, is because I can think further with it, because I'm more familiar with it. But assumed that I could (with greater knowledge) accomplish / achive as much with the Perl RE.

Which is why I thought this strategy would work, the way I indicated.

Best wishes, and thanks again for responding.

--Chris

#!/usr/bin/perl -Tw
use Perl::Always or die;
my $perl_version = (5.12.5);
print $perl_version;