Hi Monks!

First of all, sorry for the kind of dumb question, but I stuck with it. Maybe there something wrong with planet positions in the sky today. :) (jk)

Well, here is a code:

my $string = 'some text ###RAND{1a|###RAND{2a|2b|2c|###RAND{3a|3b|3c|3
+d}|2d}|1b|1c|1d} some text';

print process_rands($string)."\n";

sub process_rands {
        my $sentence = shift;
        my $count = () = $sentence =~ /###RAND/g;
        for (1..$count){
               $sentence =~ s!.*###RAND\{([^\}]+)\}!get_rand_arr_el(sp
+lit(/\|/,$1))!eg;
               print $sentence."\n";
        }
        return $sentence;
}


sub get_rand_arr_el {
        my @array         = @_;
        my $randomelement = $array[ rand @array ];
        return $randomelement;
}

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The $string contains three text arrays like ###RAND{a|b|c|d} nested into each other. The a-b-c-d is a text array splitted by a pipe. What I need is process all occurences of the ###RAND{a|b|c|d} arrays in $count passes starting from the last one and moving to the first - to avoid interfering ###RAND{a|b|c|d} vars. Each pass must substitute ###RAND{a|b|c|d} with random element from the a|b|c|d array. As in this example there three nested ###RAND{a|b|c|d} text arrays, the steps should look like this:

some text ###RAND{1a|###RAND{2a|2b|2c|###RAND{3a|3b|3c|3d}|2d}|1b|1c|1
+d} some text
some text ###RAND{1a|###RAND{2a|2b|2c|3b|2d}|1b|1c|1d} some text
some text ###RAND{1a|2d|1b|1c|1d} some text
some text 1c some text

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How to make the regexp to substitute only the last occurence in each pass?

Thank you!
Lana

In reply to Regex for replacing multiple nested matches by Lana

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