On Jul 15, Kevin Pfeiffer said:
>Jeff 'japhy' Pinyan writes:
>[...]
>> Here's a working regex:
>>
>> s/(\d)(?=\d)/$1./g;
>
>[converts 1234 to 1.2.3.4]
>
>> The (?=\d) looks ahead for a digit, without actually consuming it.
>
>What does that mean? Does it say, "match a digit, but always check to
Jeff 'japhy' Pinyan writes:
[...]
> Here's a working regex:
>
> s/(\d)(?=\d)/$1./g;
[converts 1234 to 1.2.3.4]
> The (?=\d) looks ahead for a digit, without actually consuming it.
What does that mean? Does it say, "match a digit, but always check to see
that there is still at least one remai
Jess Balint wrote at Fri, 12 Jul 2002 20:03:58 +0200:
> You need '?';
>
> echo 123 | perl -pe 's/(\d?)(\d)/$1.$2/g'
>
That doesn't really work.
Look at
echo 123456 | perl -pe 's/(\d?)(\d)/$1.$2/g'
what prints
1.23.45.6
Cheerio,
Janek
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Ooh. I like that better than mine. :)
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On Jul 12, Dusan Juhas said:
>I type
You need '?';
echo 123 | perl -pe 's/(\d?)(\d)/$1.$2/g'
[Jess]
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Sent: Friday, July 12, 2002 12:17 PM
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Subject: an error in a simple regexp
Hi,
I typed this simple cmd in the bash:
echo 123 |perl -pe 's
That's because after your regex has processed the first two numbers, it
moves on to the next two numbers. If you inputted 1234, you would probably
get back "1.23.4".
If I were you, I'd try something more like this:
my @numarray = split(//,$_);
$_ = join('.',$_);
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Fro
Dusan Juhas wrote at Fri, 12 Jul 2002 18:16:44 +0200:
> Hi,
> I typed this simple cmd in the bash:
> echo 123 |perl -pe 's/(\d)(\d)/$1.$2/g'
> and expected ouput like
> 1.2.3
> but obtained this one:
> 1.23
>
First your regexp finds
(1)(2) what is a matching.
So 1.2 is written.
Then 3 is left,
On Jul 12, Dusan Juhas said:
>I typed this simple cmd in the bash:
>echo 123 |perl -pe 's/(\d)(\d)/$1.$2/g'
>and expected ouput like
>1.2.3
>but obtained this one:
>1.23
The reason you don't get "1.2.3" is because by the time Perl has matched
"12", it can't match the "2" again.
Here's a working
