Hi, Suppose I want to match all white spaces if it is followed by "\w+=" or not followed by "date or time" :
$_ =~ s(/\s+(?=\w+=)/ || /\s+(?!(date|time)))/*/g; Doesn't seem to do what I want. Given a string: "Jan 19 11:37:21 firewall date=2007-01-19 time=11:42:15 msg="User admin login" I want it to produce something like: "Jan*19*11:37:21*firewall date=2007-01-19 time=11:42:15*msg="User admin login"*log=3 ____________________________________________________________________________________ It's here! Your new message! Get new email alerts with the free Yahoo! Toolbar. http://tools.search.yahoo.com/toolbar/features/mail/
