Re: Regex: Lookahead

why so complicated?

$_ =~
http://www.google.com
<a href="http://www.google.com">fail a match here</a>
~;

s#^(http://\S+)#<a href="$1">$1</a>#gmsi;
print;
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Whatever multiline matching you are trying to do the you should use the /m flag.

print+qq(\L@{[ref\&@]}@{['@'x7^'!#2/"!4']});

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Re^2: Regex: Lookahead by Rodster001 (Pilgrim) on May 12, 2009 at 15:35 UTC
Except that it doesn't work. Because your example is doing the replacement on the second line (like mine). I need it to fail the replacement on the second line (because it already is an html link).	[reply]
Re^3: Regex: Lookahead by ikegami (Patriarch) on May 12, 2009 at 16:34 UTC
Did you run it? (Change "`$_ =~`" to "`$_ = q~`" first.) It may not do what you want, but contrary to what you claim, it doesn't touch the second line. (Note the `/^/m`)	[reply] [d/l] [select]