Re^2: Help please

Hmm.. does seem like homework as Grandfather suggested, so i won't post a regex, but instead these points for OP to consider (perldoc perlre) with regards to the above regex:

That will match the word "hit", and won't match "hit it." -- (hint: word boundary)
If there's multiple "it" words in the line, what do you want to print? (hint: greediness)
Should the trailing [.?,] be printed as well?

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Re^3: Help please by steveatmarz (Initiate) on Mar 11, 2008 at 19:50 UTC
I have searched far and wide and I can't find how to accomplish the printing of the trailing char from character set .?,	[reply]
Re^4: Help please by davidrw (Prior) on Apr 26, 2008 at 03:46 UTC
Here's two different ways: One way is that you could capture the character class match with parens, and then refer to it (in this case) as `$2`. `/it (.)([.?,])$/i and print $1, $2, $/;` [download] Another way would be to simply move the character class to be inside the existing capturing parens: `/it (.[.?,])$/i and print $1, $/;` [download]	[reply] [d/l] [select]