Re^3: regular expression

... and my solution replaces them all by X. Is that not what you want?

If you only want to replace digits in there, you can also say

substr($str, 6, $len - 10) =~ s/\d/X/g
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Re^4: regular expression by Crackers2 (Parson) on Feb 15, 2012 at 16:07 UTC
Slight variation so you don't need the length: `substr($str, 6, -4) =~ s/./X/g;` [download]	[reply] [d/l]
Re^4: regular expression by Don Coyote (Hermit) on Feb 15, 2012 at 13:22 UTC
Inspiring. Subtracting the sum of the value of the length of the first and last visible digits to establish the variable length of the middle section. ++	[reply]