in reply to Re^2: Insert colons into a MAC address
in thread Insert colons into a MAC address

>perl -wMstrict -le 'my $ma="525400eb8b36"; $ma =~ s/..\K\B/:/g; > print $ma; ' Unrecognized escape \K passed through at -e line 1. 525400eb8b36 >
Old Perl Version syndrome, I guess.

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Re^4: Insert colons into a MAC address
by AnomalousMonk (Archbishop) on Jan 14, 2012 at 08:57 UTC
    Old Perl Version ...

    Indeed. The  \K special escape was introduced with 5.10. The following works pre-5.10, but we're back to a look-back. Oh, well...

    >perl -wMstrict -le "print $]; my $ma = '525400eb8b36'; $ma =~ s{ (?<= \G ..) \B }{:}xmsg; print qq{'$ma'}; " 5.008009 '52:54:00:eb:8b:36'