2 things..
first you are missing a closing parenth
second you are doing it globally (/g)
s/(.{100})(?: |(\-))/$1$2/;
this will now take out a space after the 100th character or keep the - after
the 100th character.
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From: M z [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]]
Sent: Tuesday, March 12, 2002 3:20 PM
To: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Subject: backreference question
Hello
I was wondering if someone could point me in the right
direction for the following regex.
s/(.{1,100}(?: |(\-))/$1$2\n/g;
Please help on the second (?: |\-)
I am trying to match either a single space ' '
or a - after 100 other characters and I want to save
the - but not the ' '
thereby $2 being undefined if ' ' is found after 100.
I'm ok with it being undefined but I'm not sure if the
above regex is valid, in fact I don't think it works
the way I want but needed to write it like that to
express what I wanted done
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