On Thu, Feb 07, 2002 at 11:27:53AM -0600, Frank wrote:
> All,
>
> My input looks like this
> ==============
> 5544#1341343BORIS
> 6200#321BOWSER
> 89232652#6213VERONICA
> ===================
> I want to put a delimiter (#) between the rightmost number and the left most
> alpha
> Resulting in
> ================
> 5544#1341343#BORIS
> 6200#321#BOWSER
> 89232652#6213#VERONICA
>
> Any suggestions for a regex that will do this?
>
> Thanks,
> Frank
>
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while (<IN>){
s/(?<=\d)\W(?=[a-z]/#/i; # look-aheads/behinds
print OUT;
}
this could be a one liner if you used perl -pi ;)
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