Re: (my $x = $s) =~ s/[^A-Z]//g;

If I understand your code right, that'd delete anything matching [^A-Z] first, and then match the pattern second, right?

I guess I should have explained better, but I don't want to modify anything interspersed within the matching ABCD characters. In fact, I very emphatically want them to remain unmolested. So, while your approach looks like it would work, it's not quite what I was looking for.

As for $s =~ /A[^A-Z]*B[^A-Z]*C[^A-Z]*D/;

if the $x pattern I am looking for is from uc(chomp($x = <STDIN>)), would I just need to use split, inserting the [^A-Z]* after every character? would that work?

Thanks
Matt

In reply to Re^2: RegEx ignoring intervening characters? by mdunnbass
in thread RegEx ignoring intervening characters? by mdunnbass

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