On Mar 3, Todd A. Jacobs said:
>On Sat, 2 Mar 2002, Steven M. Klass wrote:
>
>> if (/start/ .. /end/){
>> s/^foo/bar/;
>>
>> }
>
> s/^foo/bar/ or s/^/bar/ ;
You can just say:
s/^(foo)?/bar/;
or, if you like,
s/^(?:foo)?/bar/;
or even omit the ^.
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