Your stated requirements have problems:

  1. In isolation, this is pretty straightforward. The following would need some additional "checking" code, but the guts of it are:
    $ perl -E ' my $str = "sssDDDsssDDDssUss"; my ($fore, $aft) = split /U/, $str, 2; $fore =~ s/s/i/g; $aft =~ s/s/o/g; say "$str\n", join "U", $fore, $aft; ' sssDDDsssDDDssUss iiiDDDiiiDDDiiUoo
  2. This makes no sense as there are no more 's' characters left to modify. If there's some typo in what you wrote, then perhaps something similar to the code in my last point would suffice.
  3. This is easily achieved with transliteration:
    $ perl -E ' my $str = "sssDDDsssDDDssUss"; say $str; $str =~ y/DU/M/; say $str; ' sssDDDsssDDDssUss sssMMMsssMMMssMss
  4. You didn't finish writing this point: "... then all s becomes". You'll need to tell us what you intended to write after "becomes".

Some other points:

— Ken


In reply to Re: Pattern matching simultaneous substitution by kcott
in thread Pattern matching simultaneous substitution by Anonymous Monk

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