Not really sure what you mean by inside a while loop.
Unless you have several of these type of entries that this needs to be done to?

Maybe something like this would do the trick?

#!/usr/local/bin/perl
use strict;

my $data = join( '', <DATA> );

$data =~ s/(CREATE TABLE "SO"\.")([^"]+)(.+)(PRIMARY KEY)/$1$2$3CONSTR
+AINT PK_$2 $4/ms;

print $data;

__DATA__
CREATE TABLE "SO"."EL_HAND_RECEIPT"
(
    EL_ID             NUMBER(20) NOT NULL,
    UIC               VARCHAR2(6) NULL,
    ISSUE_RECEIPT_CD          VARCHAR2(1) NOT NULL,
    PRIMARY KEY (EL_ID)
)
TABLESPACE DATA

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Outputs...

:!test.pl
CREATE TABLE "SO"."EL_HAND_RECEIPT"
(
    EL_ID             NUMBER(20) NOT NULL,
    UIC               VARCHAR2(6) NULL,
    ISSUE_RECEIPT_CD          VARCHAR2(1) NOT NULL,
    CONSTRAINT PK_EL_HAND_RECEIPT PRIMARY KEY (EL_ID)
)
TABLESPACE DATA

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If that doesnt help, post some code.

Wonko

In reply to Re: Regular Expression Problem by Wonko the sane
in thread Regular Expression Problem by curtisb

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