Brent Clark wrote:
Hiya
Hello,
I got a string like so, and for the likes of me I can get regex to have
it that each line is starts with #abc#.
my $a =
"#aaa#message:details;extra:info;variable:times;#bbb#message:details;extra:info;variable:times;#ccc#not:always;the:same;ts:14:00.00;";
$a =~ s/(?<!#.#)/$1\n/i;
You are using a zero-width negative look-behind assertion which does not
capture its contents. You are using a pattern that matches a total of
three characters but you say you want to match five characters. You are
using the /i option but there are no characters in the pattern that are
affected by the /i option.
You probably want something like:
$x =~ s/(#...#[^#]*)/$1\n/g;
John
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