Globally, I agree with sundialsvc4 and would strongly encourage following the good monk's advice.

However, it's hard to beat the simplicity and compactness of starbolin and ikegami's approaches. Saves loading the CPAN modules and, for those like myself who can't use CPAN modules on our control systems, it is sometimes the only way (Don't get me started on why we can't you use CPAN modules...it's a sore point with me that our IT-Nazi's impose such restrictions).

Plus, the provided solutions teach a lot about the oft-misunderstood regexes and the regex engine.

I really liked starbolin's and ikegami's compact solution. I had tried to do the same thing, but couldn't figure out how to get the Perl code into the substitution portion of the s/// regex. Thanks, starbolin and ikegami.

ack Albuquerque, NM

In reply to Re^2: Combining s/// by ack
in thread Combining s/// by kangaroobin

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