"Veli-Pekka Tätilä" wrote, on Sun 10/9/2005 15:58
: Yet another newbie question about regular expressions:
: I'd like to find and replace bits of text as usual. However, rather than
: replace all occurrences in one quick swoop using the s-operator and the
: g-flag, the replacement is so complex that it cannot be expressed as a
: straight substitution. So I would have to find a piece of text, process it
: in a separate function, and replace the matched text with the newly computed
: text. This goes on for n interesting matches in the input.
: Yet another newbie question about regular expressions:
: I'd like to find and replace bits of text as usual. However, rather than
: replace all occurrences in one quick swoop using the s-operator and the
: g-flag, the replacement is so complex that it cannot be expressed as a
: straight substitution. So I would have to find a piece of text, process it
: in a separate function, and replace the matched text with the newly computed
: text. This goes on for n interesting matches in the input.
I can't tell from
your note if you've investigated the /e flag yet, that allows you to replace a
chunk of text with the result of a function call:
s/(stuff that's not a
note)?(note)/$1tag_from_note($2)/ge;
Good
luck,
Joe
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