Fellow monks,

I am trying to figure out what kind of regex would replace the 4th space in a line of data with \n.

I'm working with name and address data and printing them to a PDF file to print on labels. However, some of the names are spanning in to the next column of labels. My thought was to replace the 4th instance of \s with \n so that:

School of Wisdom and Knowledge College Preparatory <PR> would become

School of Wisdom and
Knowledge College Preparatory

All I could think to do, as a regex, was to: 

$name =~ s/.+\s.+\s.+\s.+\s/.+\s.+\s.+\s.+\n/;

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but that got nowhere at all.

Is it even possible to count the number of matches in a regex without using some kind of loop? Is it even possible to replace on the 4th occurence of something inside a regex at all?

Thanks in advance!

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In reply to Need help with regex to replace 4th \s with \n in data line by Popcorn Dave

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