It's not clear what you want to achieve. Maybe the following Perl code will help? Just replace the text in the hash with whatever you want to fill the gaps with.

use strict; use warnings; my %fillers = ( A => "Whatever is required for the A gap here", B => "Whatever is required for the B gap here", C => "Whatever is required for the C gap here", ); while (<DATA>) { s/_*(\w)_+/$fillers{$1}/eg; print; } __DATA__ function start() { __A________________________________________________; } function validate( event ) { if ( B_____{ event.preventDefault(); C__________________; alert( "Wrong format for age!" ); } }

Prints:

function start() { Whatever is required for the A gap here; } function validate( event ) { if ( Whatever is required for the B gap here{ event.preventDefault(); Whatever is required for the C gap here; alert( "Wrong format for age!" ); } }

DWIM is Perl's answer to Gödel

In reply to Re: Fill Gaps by GrandFather
in thread Fill Gaps by zhshqzyc

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