Hi Thomas,
On Wed, 2 Jan 2013 14:34:07 +0000
"Hamann, T.D." <thomas.ham...@naturalis.nl> wrote:
> Hello,
>
> Given a string:
>
> i994
>
> where I want to replace the 'i' by a '1' the following regex succesfully
> replaces the letter by a number:
>
> s/(i)(\d\d\d)/1$2/;
>
> However, given a string:
>
> i99o
>
> where I want to replace the 'i' by a '1' and the 'o' by a '0' (zero), the
> following regex fails:
>
> s/(i)(\d\d)(o)/1$20/;
>
You can do:
s/(i)(\d\d)(o)/1${2}0/;
Or alternatively:
s/(i)(\d\d)(o)/"1" . $2 . "0"/e;
Regards,
Shlomi Fish
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