Re: Regex and \G

I would use:

    s!^((?: {8})+)!"\t" x length ($1) / 8!e;
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Abigail

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Re: Re: Regex and \G by Melly (Chaplain) on Oct 23, 2003 at 09:20 UTC
Ah, but then I wouldn't know what I was doing... ;) Many thanks, though. Tom Melly, tom@tomandlu.co.uk	[reply]
Re^2: Regex and \G (oops) by tye (Sage) on Oct 23, 2003 at 14:38 UTC
`s!^((?: {8})+)!"\t" x length ($1) / 8!e;` [download] Why would you want to replace leading chunks of spaces with "0" while generating a warning? Yet another example of why we should have a few more levels in the Perl precedence table. - tye	[reply] [d/l]
Re: Regex and \G (oops) by Abigail-II (Bishop) on Oct 23, 2003 at 14:45 UTC
Why would you want to replace leading chunks of spaces with "0" while generating a warning? Because tabs are evil, and it's good that when there's an attempt to summon evil, warnings are generated, and harmless beings (the 0's) are send instead. Abigail	[reply]