JupiterHost.Net wrote:
> Adam W wrote:
>> John W. Krahn wrote:
>>
>>> $text =~ s!(.*?)\((.*?)\)!<a href="$2" alt="$2">$1</a>!g;
>>
>>
>> Thanks for the help and the more streamlined regexp.
> 
> An even better way (see O'reilley's "Perl Best Practices" by Damian
> Conway - buy this book you will write better code)
> 
> Is to make it extremely readable with xms :)
> 
> Same exact regex as above:
> 
> $test =~ s{  (.*?)  [(]   (.*?)   [)]  }
>           {<a href="$2" alt="$2">$1</a>}xmsg;

Adding the /s option changes what the regular expression will match which may
not be what the OP wants.


John
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