Hello Monks...I am always looking for one liners and I would like to know if it is possible to substitute a group of known substrings with a set of corresponding known values. For example:
$string = "Test: FileNames can't have / \\ and other special character
+s";

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Now I could easily substitute out... 
$string =~ /\:/COLON/g;
$string =~ /\//FSLASH/g;
$string =~ /\\/BSLASH/g;

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And the value of $string is:
"TestCOLON FileNames can't have FSLASH BSLASH and other special characters"
But I would like to know if its possible to do all the substitutions in one line with some sort of grouping.
Thanks

In reply to Is Group Substitution Possible? by ketema

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