Did you test this? I'm not claiming you are wrong, but my quick test of it showed it not changing anything:

#!/usr/bin/perl -w use strict; my $TEXT= do { local $/; <DATA> }; if( $TEXT =~ /abc/g ) { $TEXT =~ s/\G(\D+)([\d\.\-]*)­/$1GOVALUE/g; } print $TEXT; __END__ abc(" 0.123511, 0.074997, 0.103143, 0.153955, +0.260586",\ " 0.068394, 0.082183, 0.110329, 0.16114 +2, 0.267773",\ " 0.081887, 0.095677, 0.123822, 0.17463 +5, 0.281266",\ " 0.111534, 0.125324, 0.153470, 0.20428 +2, 0.310914",\ " 0.165731, 0.179521, 0.207666, 0.25847 +9, 0.365110");

The output was the same as the input.

- tye        


In reply to Re^3: Found a bug with Search and Replace command? (incremental) by tye
in thread Found a bug with Search and Replace command? by EchoAngel

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