The problem is actually that in reality there are often enough extra hyphens *with* surrounding spaces. And it is often enough to see title fields with a space on only one side, which can vary is the space is present at all. The use of the pipe pulls at me as something to consider, though I would need to test it in both Win and Linux.

The fun part is hyphenated names. Since these are normally unspaced I can capture them and replace with spaces. The method I currently use is to split with a hyphen and to chack the size of the first var. I will try to do this with a regex with /\w{1,7}\-\w.+\-/x check and see if that works.

My main concern is the lack of infinite lookbehinds, though the newly discovered \K operator (thanks to this thread! It seems to work wonders on scripts I have adapted to it. ). Are there any modules that add extra capability to the Perl regex? It seems Python has one, but I am far too much a noob in that language to do any productive scripting there yet! (And i really do hate the idea of immutable strings...)

In reply to Re^2: Regex Parsing Chars in a Line by kel
in thread Regex Parsing Chars in a Line by kel

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