Hi guys. I have a text file that looks like
January 1, 1915 Franck Pourcel January 3, 1926 George Martin January 3, 1945 Stephen Stills January 3, 1946 John Paul Jones January 4, 1942 John McLaughlin January 5, 1950 Chris Stein
And I want to replace it with
January 1, 1915 (Birthday) Franck Pourcel - singer January 3, 1926 (Birthday) George Martin - singer January 3, 1945 (Birthday) Stephen Stills - singer January 3, 1946 (Birthday) John Paul Jones - singer January 4, 1942 (Birthday) John McLaughlin - singer January 5, 1950 (Birthday) Chris Stein - singer
Sometimes the spaces after the year are less or more.

This is what I got so far.

#!/usr/bin/perl use warnings; use strict; open(LOG, "source.txt") or die "error"; my @lines = <LOG>; close(LOG); my $cnt = 0; foreach my $line (@lines) { $cnt++; $line =~ s/(\d+\s+)(.+)/$1 }
I think I need some help.

In reply to small regex help by Anonymous Monk

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