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in thread Phone Number Regular Expression

s/.../888${1}555-$2/ will do it for you. The braces around the variable name, specifically, are what you're looking for.
Jeff japhy Pinyan, P.L., P.M., P.O.D, X.S.: Perl, regex, and perl hacker
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Re^4: Phone Number Regular Expression
by lev36 (Sexton) on Mar 16, 2006 at 17:55 UTC

    Righteous! That should give me all the building blocks I need for my script. Thanks again to all!

    And thanks also to whomever gave the thread a more useful name...

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