On Jan 24, Naveen Parmar said: >s/^([^ ]+) +([^ ]+)/$2 $1/;
[^ ] means "any character that is not a space. I think this regex would generally be written better as: s/(\S+)(\s+)(\S+)/$3$2$1/; This swaps the first two chunks of non-whitespace. That would turn my previous sentence into "swaps This the first two chunks of non-whitespace." -- Jeff "japhy" Pinyan [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://www.pobox.com/~japhy/ RPI Acacia brother #734 http://www.perlmonks.org/ http://www.cpan.org/ ** Look for "Regular Expressions in Perl" published by Manning, in 2002 ** <stu> what does y/// stand for? <tenderpuss> why, yansliterate of course. -- To unsubscribe, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] For additional commands, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
