Michael Alipio wrote: > Hi, Hello,
> Suppose I have: > > my $sentence = 'the quick brown fox jumps over the lazy dog." > > Now I want it to become: > > 'the quick brown:fox:jumps:over:the lazy dog." One way to do it: $ perl -le' my $sentence = "the quick brown fox jumps over the lazy dog."; $sentence =~ s/ +(?=.* +[^ ]+ +)/ ++$x > 2 ? ":" : " " /eg; print $sentence; ' the quick brown:fox:jumps:over:the lazy dog. John -- Perl isn't a toolbox, but a small machine shop where you can special-order certain sorts of tools at low cost and in short order. -- Larry Wall -- To unsubscribe, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] For additional commands, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://learn.perl.org/
