Hi,
I'm a lamer-newbie, so please excuse me if this is a dumb question.. I have been mulling over it now for a couple hours, and I can't think of a good way to do what I want. I am not even sure how to search for what I'm trying to do either, so here goes:
Best to give an example:

...load an array of words then foreach it
<snip>
if(/nce|nse/) {
   s/$&/replace with what it's not/i;
   print;
}

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So.. if I have two strings I'm searching for, I want it to replace with the the other string; IOW, if I find "nse", I want to replace with "nce" and visa versa.. Every thing I think of seems more complicated than: 

if(nse) {
   s/nse/nce/i;
   print;
}
if(nce) {
   s/nce/nse/i;
   print;
}

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If that's the only way to do it, sobeit.. but I'm thinking there has to be a more elegant way to tell it to replace with b if it finds a, or a if it finds b.

Edit by thelenm: added code tags

In reply to Search and replace logic by carric

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