>> I can usually figure out regexes, and this one seems simple, but it still
>> eludes me--
>>
>> I'm looking for a regex (or a couple of regexes) to do the following:
>>
>> blahblah{ab,abcd}blah --> blahblah(ab|abcd)blah
>> blahblah{a,b,c}blah --> blahblah(a|b|c)blah
>>
>> If it's not obvious I'm trying to glob-select files like the tcsh would.
>> I've got the rest, this is the last part...
>
> $var =~ s<{([^}]+)}><(?:@{[ ($a = $1) =~ y/,/|/; $a ]})>;
Luke's suggestion blew me away, but I finally came to deal with it. Now
this one blew me away again...
John, can you explain what this does?
(?:@{[ stuff ]})
I'm going to do an archive search for all your replies, you come up with
some amazing stuff....
- B
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