This is a bit of a contrieved example, because what I really want to do is a bit complicated, but it illustrates the problem I'm having. Also neither English nor Perl is my first language ;) so be forgiving!

Say I want to insert a numeral "5" between certain characters, so I write:

s/([a-m])([n-z])/$15$2/g;

Now this doesn't work: Perl thinks I'm talking about a variable $15 here and I get an error message. To work around I define a variable $five = 5; and redefine the s/// as

s/([a-m])([n-z])/$1$five$2/g;

Now it works but is there a way to get it to work without that $five variable?

TIA,

/Melroch

In reply to Inserting numbers between parenthese matches in regexp by Melroch

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