Thanks a million, that one did it 

-----Original Message-----
From: Bob Showalter [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] 
Sent: Monday, November 07, 2005 1:55 PM
To: Fontenot, Ward P.
Cc: beginners@perl.org
Subject: Re: Regex

[EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
> I have a field that looks like this:
> 
> 'modprobe: modprobe: Can't locate module char-major-10-134'
> 
> I need to add a single quote so that it looks like this:
> 
> 'modprobe: modprobe: Can''t locate module char-major-10-134'
> 
> But I have no idea how to go about doing that, can I get an example?

If you don't want to include the quotes at the start and end of the string,
you can use:

   s/(?<=.)'(?=.)/''/gs

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