In an older episode (Wednesday, 21. January 2009), rje...@vzw.blackberry.net wrote: > I am attempting to create a regular expression to give a negative > score for purchase orders. I need to match the following: PO > PO: > PO# > P.O. > P.O. # > PO # > > I have not been able to get this to work correctly. I have the > following: > > /\bP\.?O\.?[:#]? [#]?/i
/\bP\.?O\.?[:#]? ?[#]?/i should work: $ echo 'PO#'|perl -pe 's/\bP\.?O\.?[:#]? ?[#]?/blah/i' blah > Thanks in advance. My pleasure. wolfgang
