Wow, an impressive set of responses -- thanks Erez, Chas, Chris, C., Shawn, and Jennifer.
I think most of the response pointed to "non-greedy" matches, is that right? Are those deprecated or discouraged? Thanks again. - Bryan > On Wed, Jul 14, 2010 at 00:50, C.DeRykus <dery...@gmail.com> wrote: > snip >>> s/(\w+)\s/$1 /g; > snip >> Neat. Using the \K construct available in 5.10, you can even >> eliminate the need for the capture: >> >> s/ \w+ \K \s / /gx; > snip > > Yeah, but both of these are fragile, the following string won't work: > > data: "this, is a string" more: "this is another" > -- To unsubscribe, e-mail: beginners-unsubscr...@perl.org For additional commands, e-mail: beginners-h...@perl.org http://learn.perl.org/
