I have this following lines of code. 
$line="src/utility/include/abc.pl@@/main/f1/f2/1 
/main/f1/f3/f6/f7/3, /mian/1; 123\"\;";
print "TEST : .$line\n";

$line =~ s/\/main\/.*?(,|;|\"|\s)/%I%/g;
print "\nReplacing with %I% : $line\n";

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Output :
Replacing with %I% : /src/utility/include/abc.pl@@%I% %I% %I% 123";

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Now I don't want the delimeter to be replaced in the above cases but I have to take delimeter inside my search string for replacement of the /main/.*? portion i.e I want perl to repalce upto the first occurence of any of the delimeters (,|;|\"|\s) whenever my search condition satisfy but not the delimeter itself. Thanks & Regards

In reply to search and repalce excluding delimeter by paribasu

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