AnomalousMonk,

I appreciate the time you have put into forming such detailed responses. I must admit that I do not fully understand this one, but may come back to review it later to see what I can learn from it. However, in my case, I don't think the substitution list itself can be better arranged.

My situation has, at present, no regex expressions, only pure textual substitutions; however, it has substitutions of varying lengths requiring the longer ones to come first. The longest ones will be several sentences in length.

For example, I might wish to substitute "every one" with "everyone" AFTER I have already substituted "every one of them" with "every one of them" (no change, but the substitution itself will get padded so that it will not match subsequently, thus preserving it from being incorrectly changed to "everyone" in that case). Another case would be to change "sore athirst" to "very thirsty" BEFORE changing all "athirst" instances to "thirsty." In my case, I am ordering the longest substitutions to take place first. I don't think Regex::Assemble would properly handle this. Efficiency must take second priority, though it is important because ongoing edits will require many executions of the script. I am needing to count each substitution so that I can checksum with the original files to ascertain the correct substitutions have indeed taken place.

In reply to Re^2: How to count substitutions on an array by Anonymous Monk
in thread How to count substitutions on an array by Anonymous Monk

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