A regex like
my $row = "hello;this;is;a;test";
my $i = 1;
print "row: $row\n";
$row =~ s/;/"<\/col". $i++ ."><col$i>"/eg;
$row = "<col1>" . $row . "<col$i>";
print "row: $row\n";

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That works. Not the prettiest thing in the world though.
I have to agree thought that regex is proboly not the best solution for this problem.
This one is kinda prettier :-) 
my $row = "hello;this;is;a;test";
my $i = 1;
print "row: $row\n";
@cols = split(/;/,$row);
foreach $col (@cols) { $output .= "<col$i>$col</col$i>"; $i++}
print "row: $output\n";

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Notice that these all deal with just a single line though easily expanded to cover multiple lines.
Eric Hodges

In reply to Re: newbie regex question: substituting repeating occurences for different replacements by eric256
in thread newbie regex question: substituting repeating occurences for different replacements by RuyLopez

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