You seem to be parsing out sentences, and that's a tricky, natural language sort of thing to do, and perhaps not best done with regexen. If you can do it, the  \u \U \l \L "interpolation control" (as I think of them) operators or escape sequences may come in handy for the transformations you want (see Quote and Quote-like Operators in perlop — and don't forget  \Q \E too). You can avoid the  /e regex modifier. With a very naive definition of a sentence pattern: 

c:\@Work\Perl>perl -wMstrict -le
"my $s = 'perlmonks IS a gREat site. dO you tHiNk SO? I loVE it!';
 print qq{'$s'};
 ;;
 my $senterm = '.?!';
 my $sentence = qr{ \b [[:alpha:]] [^\Q$senterm\E]* [\Q$senterm\E] }xm
+s;
 ;;
 $s =~ s{ ($sentence) }{\u\L$1}xmsg;
 print qq{'$s'};
"
'perlmonks IS a gREat site. dO you tHiNk SO? I loVE it!'
'Perlmonks is a great site. Do you think so? I love it!'

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An equivalent  /e substitution would be
    $s =~ s{ ($sentence) }{ ucfirst lc $1 }xmsge;
Is there any significant speed difference?

In reply to Re: regular expression search and replace by AnomalousMonk
in thread regular expression search and replace by heman

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