Honerable Monks -

I am stuck with a regex problem and need your help (again, I know). I simply want to replace all matches in string. I am trying to include a single quote in front of every string in between underscores that does not contain a single quote yet. Here is the code that I tried: 
#! /usr/bin/perl -w

use strict;
use locale;

my $string = "_'nada_komo_el_'sol_";

$string =~  s/(_)([^']+?)(_)/$1'$2$3/go;

print $string;

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This returns _'nada_'komo_el_'sol_ rather than _'nada_'komo_'el_'sol_. The second match is missed out on because the match position has already passed beyond the underscore separating komo and el. I believe that what I need is a re-assignment of pos($string) -- after each match ... only, I don't know how to include this into the regex. Your help with this would therefore be much appreciated.

Thanks in advance and best regards -

Pat

In reply to Modifying the match position after each match by pat_mc

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