Very thanks Jeff and Wiggins, this work perfectly! Regards, Ricardo Pichler ----- Original Message ----- From: "Jeff 'japhy' Pinyan" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> To: "Ricardo Pichler" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Cc: <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Sent: Friday, November 14, 2003 12:27 AM Subject: Re: Replace with regular expression
> On Nov 13, Ricardo Pichler said: > > >I need replace in my string the characters in > >upperCase for the same but preceding the simbol +. > > > >$myName="RicardoPichler"; > >s/.../.../g; # to do this return "+Ricardo+Pichler"; > > > >$myName=~s/[A-Z]/\+[A-Z]/g; > > You can't use a regex on the right-hand side of a s///, it's not > appropriate. Instead, use capturing parentheses: > > $myName =~ s/([A-Z])/+$1/g; > > Another way to do this, though, is to use a look-ahead: > > $myName =~ s/(?=[A-Z])/+/g; > > That says "if we can look ahead and match an A-Z, then replace what we've > matched (which isn't anything, we've only LOOKED) with a +, for all > occurrences". > > -- > Jeff "japhy" Pinyan [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://www.pobox.com/~japhy/ > RPI Acacia brother #734 http://www.perlmonks.org/ http://www.cpan.org/ > <stu> what does y/// stand for? <tenderpuss> why, yansliterate of course. > [ I'm looking for programming work. If you like my work, let me know. ] > > > -- > To unsubscribe, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] > For additional commands, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] -- To unsubscribe, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] For additional commands, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
