Mike Martin wrote:
On 27/09/2007, Rob Dixon <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
Mike Martin wrote:
Hi I am trying to capture only the first occurence of a charcter
followed by any word ie: in this sample text
!this is a first level heading
!!this is a 2nd level heading
I only want to find the first item and not the second
current code
$line=~s/\!(^\![A-Z][a-z].+)/$1/gc;
it either doesnt capture any ! or takes out the first ! when there is a double
any ideas
Hi Mike. I'm confused as to what you're trying to do, as your regex
doesn't make sense and is a subtitution rather than a pattern match. My
best guess is that you want to elevate all second-level headings to first-
level ones? Maybe something like
$line =~ s/^!(![a-z].+)/$1/gi;
does what you need.
nope - I am trying to find only strings that start with ! and not
those starting with !!
Then you want
$line =~ s/^!([a-z].+)/$1/i;
or, better:
$line =~ s/^!(?=[^!])//;
Rob
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