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Regular Expression- contextual replacement
Nvm, I figured it out. Thanks anyways. -
Regular Expression- contextual replacement
Not school work, not sure why you'd think that. The regexp I posted was just the general idea. I'm no beginner with regular expressions. I'm looking for the general method of preforming replacement selectively, or maybe nested regexp. I was hoping one of the Perl experts here would know, or... -
Regular Expression- contextual replacement
Hi, would it be possible to match a chunk in a file, and then replace only a portion (a phrase) of it? For example: $a = "<start>op3 and op and op2</start>" I need to do things sequentially: 1. Match <start>.+?</start> 2. Replace "op" contained with "op1" The end result should look like: $a...
