ansh batra:

For the third point, I was just meaning that you don't need the parenthesis. But I was totally wrong (as AnomalousMonk pointed out to me), as I missed that you *are* using the capture group as the key to the hash for your replacement. As you can see, we *all* make mistakes! ;^)

Your latest version looks good.

...roboticus

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