On Wed, Apr 27, 2005 at 01:31:08PM -0400, Jay Savage wrote: > > Don't make things so complicated. You want to find some words and > replace them with nothing. You don't care where in the string the > pattern appears. Therefore, you don't have to predict where in the
The word 'ups' is not mandatory - it might be there, might not. Also the amount of spaces inbetween is not fixed. However what you said about me not caring where the string is - you are right. I dropped (?:(^)|(?<=\S)) from the front, and it produces identical results. Thanks! -- To unsubscribe, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] For additional commands, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] <http://learn.perl.org/> <http://learn.perl.org/first-response>
