On Fri, 2007-01-19 at 02:08 -0800, Michael Alipio wrote: > Hi, > > my $string = "This is a sentence"; > > Now, I want to join "is" and "a" by a dash. > > Any idea how do i do that? > > using regexp may not be want I want because the real string contains > many words, so I have to join several words without using too much > regexp substitutions.
smells like homework. Show us what you have tried. Remember rule 1 is to get something that works and is clear. Performance is rarely an issue and even then profile working code before doing anything. -- Ken Foskey FOSS developer -- To unsubscribe, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] For additional commands, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://learn.perl.org/