On Feb 7, Frank Newland said: >I want to put a delimiter (#) between the rightmost number and the left most >alpha
s/(\d)([^\W\d])/$1#$2/; You can't just say (\d)(\w), because \w INCLUDES \d. You could write something like (\d)(?!\d)(\w), which requires that the \w character after the \d NOT be a \d. However, you can use character class tomfoolery to get it done. [^\W\d] means "any character that is NOT: a non-word char or a digit". If we take the opposite of that, we get: "any character that IS a word char and NOT a digit." (Study deMorgan's laws if you don't understand the opposition.) Of course, if I got off my lazy ass, Perl 5.6.2 would support [\w^^\d] which means "\w minus \d". -- Jeff "japhy" Pinyan [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://www.pobox.com/~japhy/ RPI Acacia brother #734 http://www.perlmonks.org/ http://www.cpan.org/ ** Look for "Regular Expressions in Perl" published by Manning, in 2002 ** <stu> what does y/// stand for? <tenderpuss> why, yansliterate of course. -- To unsubscribe, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] For additional commands, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
