Hey Perl Monks, Here's a followup on a question i asked earlier. I wanted to appended the current year to a string such as copyright 2000-2001 blah blah to copyright 2000-2001, 2003 blah blah. With some perl monk help, they came up with this:

s/(copyright\s+[\d,-\s]*)/$1, 2003/i

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Now i'd like to generalize the search pattern to contain the word copyright and any sequence of years seperated by hyphens, commas and periods,

eg "copyright 1999, 2000-2001, 2002. blah blah blah"

and insert the current year right after the last number specified. In the above example, this would be

"copyright 1999, 2000-2001, 2002, 2003. blah blah blah "

How would i modify the above script?

Thanks so much for everyone's input.

JC

In reply to followup on regex by jc23

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