in reply to printf formatting in regular expressions?

Use sprintf and the /e switch on the regex:

s/(\d+)/sprintf '%04d', $1/e

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Re^2: printf formatting in regular expressions?
by bunnym4n (Novice) on Oct 05, 2008 at 21:04 UTC
    thanks a lot!