Wow, I'm impressed by how fast I got three awesome replies here, thanks to all of you so far.

"This is presuming that your elements to match are single characters as in the example, however."

Argh, I'm really sorry, I should've picked a better example here, I forgot about tr/// when choosing the 'a' and 'b' one.

In my real life issue I want to replace
every \bi\b with a 'you',
every \byou\b with an 'i',
every \bu\b with an 'i',
every \byour\n with a 'my',
every \bmy\b with a 'your',
every \bam\b with an 'are',
every \bare\b with an 'am',
and every \br\b with an 'am'.

"i think you really should've picked a better example for your perlmonks thread"
=>
"you think i really should've picked a better example for my perlmonks thread"



I'm really sorry for the poor example in my inital post.
Thanks guys.

In reply to Re: Multiple replacements with the exception of previously made replacements. by jthiel
in thread Multiple replacements with the exception of previously made replacements. by jthiel

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