On Sep 27, 8:58 am, [EMAIL PROTECTED] (Mike Martin) wrote: > Hi I am trying to capture only the first occurence of a charcter > followed by any word ie: in this sample text > > !this is a first level heading > !!this is a 2nd level heading > > I only want to find the first item and not the second > > current code > > $line=~s/\!(^\![A-Z][a-z].+)/$1/gc;
This says to search for an exclamation mark, followed by the beginning of the string (which makes no sense, of course), followed by another exclamation mark, followed by a capital letter, a lowercase letter, and then one or more of anything. And replace all of that with everything except the first exclamation. > it either doesnt capture any ! or takes out the first ! when there is a double No it doesn't. There is no way this pattern match ever succeeds. It's not possible to find some character and *then* the beginning of the string. Provide sample input and output of what it is you're trying to do. Your english description of the problem is confusing at best. Paul Lalli -- To unsubscribe, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] For additional commands, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://learn.perl.org/
