Ramprasad A Padmanabhan [RAP], on Wednesday, April 27, 2005 at 15:55 (+0530) thinks about:
RAP> I want a regex to replace all continuous occurrences of '-' with RAP> something else say 'x' except the first one this is nearly what you want, it should be a bit improved: my @input = ("- Ram", "-- bla", "bla ---", "-- blah ----"); print grep { s/-[^-]*-/-x/g } @input; -- How do you protect mail on web? I use http://www.2pu.net [(A)bort (R)etry (C)ontinue ... just kidding.] -- To unsubscribe, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] For additional commands, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] <http://learn.perl.org/> <http://learn.perl.org/first-response>