jwkrahn:

*Slaps hand to forehead* I should have known there'd be a module to handle this! Although, having looked at the module documentation, I have to admit I never would have come up with your solution. None of my books have anything about using the substitution regexp with two sets of braces. Thanks for the help - it ran perfectly!

pc88mxr:

Thanks for the explanation! Now it all makes sense. At one point I tried a  while <SOURCE> loop but it wasn't working so I abandoned that and went with what (little) I know. I'm going to go back and play with this some more so I understand the concept.

Thank you both for helping me add another tool to my toolkit!

In reply to Re^2: Matching multiple digits by skoney
in thread Matching multiple digits by skoney

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