Greetings again good and saintly monks,

This is an interesting little regex problem that grew out of a recent class assignment:

Basically I want to take a line of text that contains values in Chinese national currency like this:

__DATA__

    Hello all!  Today I bought breakfast for 02.50 and lunch for 10.20
+  Dinner was a real splurge at 21.00.

__END__
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And convert it and put it out in American dollars like this:

__DATA__
    Hello all!  Today I bought breakfast for 00.32 and lunch for 01.30
+.  Dinner was a real splurge at 02.67.

__END__
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note that it is ok to keep the 0s on the left side of the numbers after the conversion.

I have managed to come up with something that looks like this:

 
my $string = <>;
my $word;


###
# I need help fixing this split function so that I can match the strin
+gs below but 
# still keep the formatting from the original text.
###

my @array = split(/*regex help needed here!*/, $string);

while(@array){
$word = shift(@array);
if($word = ~ /[0-9][0-9][.][0-9][0-9]/)){


###
#I have figured out the math to do the currency conversion
###

print “$word”;
}
else{
print “$word”;
    }
}
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Basically I think it comes down to the fact I need help making the split function more intelligent. Is this possible, or am I asking too much from a simple regex?

Thanks for all help and opinions,

-mox

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