Hi monks,

In the following regex, I'm trying to escape the single quote mark in words with an apostrophe 's': 

my $string = qq~'tom's is silly','some','peter said it's okay'~;

$string =~ s/(?!,)'s/\\'s/g;

print "$string\n";

#output: 'tom\'s silly',\'some','peter said it\'s okay'

#desired output: 'tom\'s is silly','some','peter said it\'s okay'

# In the desired output, the single quote before "some" is not escaped

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The text in $string is the dumped output from MySQL. $string contains the 3 values (1) "tom's silly" (2) "some" and (3) "peter said it's okay"

I need to escape the single quote mark in "tom's" and "it's". My regex escapes the single quote before "some" as well, which is wrong.

Please enlighten me.

Thanks in advance :)

In reply to Escape single quote marks in words by kiat

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