Re^2: Incremental replacement by regex

Well, as I said, it was the e modifier I was missing. I had done plenty of searches and had indeed read various parts of perlretut such as

http://perldoc.perl.org/perlretut.html#A-bit-of-magic%3a-executing-Perl-code-in-a-regular-expression

and
http://groups.google.com/group/perl.beginners/browse_thread/thread/a11b27b5c5efb6ae

http://www.google.co.uk/search?sourceid=chrome&ie=UTF-8&q=regex+increment

Please could you suggest ways of searching for something in a way that answers the question when you are not exactly sure how to phrase the question. That would be better than telling me to read the documentation that I have just searched.

I thought the philosphy here was "A stupid question is an unasked question". Not "let me waste my time telling you to read the manual while I sit all smug because I know all the answers".

My apologies if I have misinterpreted your reply. Thank you very much for your helpful suggestions.

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Re^3: Incremental replacement by regex by ww (Archbishop) on Feb 21, 2011 at 17:56 UTC
No apologies needed, but my intent (which seems to have miscarried) was to provide some hints on where/how to search. But to the general question "how does one search for something which one lacks the vocabulary to describe?" ... I hasten to admit, I don't really know. Some days, thrashing around amongst words that pop into my head as "maybe related" works like a charm; other days -- well, it's a lot more slogging and questions as broad as your OP. And please -- take this as kindly-intentioned advice about the Monastery norms rather than as 'harsh:' had you cited originally the research that you've now posted in the reply, I might have answered differently -- with, for example, a direct link to a section of `perlretut` or some other document, because it would have been obvious that had made significant and well-directed effort.	[reply]

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Re^3: Incremental replacement by regex
by ww (Archbishop) on Feb 21, 2011 at 17:56 UTC

But to the general question "how does one search for something which one lacks the vocabulary to describe?" ... I hasten to admit, I don't really know. Some days, thrashing around amongst words that pop into my head as "maybe related" works like a charm; other days -- well, it's a lot more slogging and questions as broad as your OP.

And please -- take this as kindly-intentioned advice about the Monastery norms rather than as 'harsh:' had you cited originally the research that you've now posted in the reply, I might have answered differently -- with, for example, a direct link to a section of perlretut or some other document, because it would have been obvious that had made significant and well-directed effort.

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