I shall make no bones about it - I am very unexperienced with perl! Anyway this is what i want to do;
I have a lot of files (2-40).html and in each file there is a large list of names that looks like;
AAvBB
AAvT
... generally of the form [one or two letters] a 'v' and then [one or two letters]. each xxvxx name is unique and case sensitive
what i want to change this to is
(some html code 1 AAvBB) (some html code 2 AAvBB)
(some html code 1 AAvT) (some html code 2 AAvT)
...
so for each xxvxx i want to embedd it multiple times into a bit of html. I have a very large number of these to do so I assume I can use a regex for ??v?? - and have it as a variable i can print back into the file. However I am having a tough time with it.
Any help is most welcome!
Thank you

2005-02-15 Janitored by Arunbear - converted square brackets to entities, to avoid creation of bogus links

In reply to A text replacement question by steamerboy

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