Date: Fri, 29 Aug 2003 11:33:47 -0700 (PDT) From: =?ISO-8859-1?Q?Mikko_Ty=F6l=E4j=E4rvi?= <mbsd@pacbell.net> To: Roger Williams <root@bara.naviservers.net> Cc: questions@freebsd.org Subject: Re: Off Topic Regex Question Message-ID: <20030829113025.I84037@atlas.home> In-Reply-To: <20030828075925.P26740-100000@bara.naviservers.net> References: <20030828075925.P26740-100000@bara.naviservers.net>
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On Thu, 28 Aug 2003, Roger Williams wrote: > I know thins is not the place but I know one of you know this one off the > top of your head. > > I have: > > $list = "dog 1 1 1 cat 2 1 snake 111" > and I want to end up with: > dog 1 cat 2 snake 1 > I thought > $list =~ s/ \d \d/ \d/g; > would do the trick, but that gives me: > dog d 1 1 cat d snake d 1 I'm not sure I understand your criteria, but try something like: $list =~ s/(\w+\s+\d\s?)[\d\s]*/$1/g; $.02, /Mikko
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