Hello,
I'm trying to abbreviate ordinals(?) that occur only in the middle of
an address and I'm having a problem. The line below works:
$test_data =~ s/(\S) North (\S)/$1 N. $2/i;
however, if the address is something like 901 North St., it abbreviates that as
well. I'm wanting it to
On Jan 28, 2013, at 11:57 AM, Angela Barone wrote:
> Hello,
>
> I'm trying to abbreviate ordinals(?) that occur only in the middle of
> an address and I'm having a problem. The line below works:
>
> $test_data =~ s/(\S) North (\S)/$1 N. $2/i;
>
> however, if the address is something li
I'm thinking {2,}\w to match two or more words after north.
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On 2013-01-28, at 2:57 PM, Angela Barone wrote:
> Hello,
>
>I'm trying to abbreviate ordinals(?) that occur only in the middle of an
> address and I'm having a problem. The line below works:
>
> $test_data
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>From: Paul Anderson [mailto:wackyvor...@me.com]
>Sent: Monday, January 28, 2013 13:32
>To: Angela Barone
>Cc: beginners@perl.org
>Subject: Re: Abbreviating ordinals only in the middle of an address
>
>I'm thinking {2,}\w to match two or mo
Paul Anderson:
On Mon, Jan 28, 2013 at 03:32:01PM -0500, Paul Anderson wrote:
> I'm thinking {2,}\w to match two or more words after north.
/{2,}\w/ is not a valid regex. This is what perl will tell you
(if your regex is exactly this and there's nothing in front of it
to unintentionally precede
On 01/28/2013 02:57 PM, Angela Barone wrote:
Hello,
I'm trying to abbreviate ordinals(?) that occur only in the middle of
an address and I'm having a problem. The line below works:
$test_data =~ s/(\S) North (\S)/$1 N. $2/i;
however, if the address is something like 901 North St., it
I am not an expert in Perl, but wouldn't
$test_data =~ s/north/N./gi;
be sufficient?
Regards,
Tushar Jain
On Mon, Jan 28, 2013 at 2:42 PM, Nathan Hilterbrand wrote:
> On 01/28/2013 02:57 PM, Angela Barone wrote:
>
>> Hello,
>>
>> I'm trying to abbreviate ordinals(?) that occur only in
On Jan 28, 2013, at 1:07 PM, Jim Gibson wrote:
> This is known as a "negative lookahead assertion" and uses the (?!...)
> construct:
Thanks, everyone. I went with the negative lookahead that Jim
mentioned. It works like a charm!
Thanks again,
Angela
On Jan 29, 2013, at 8:19 AM, Tushar N K Jain wrote:
> I am not an expert in Perl, but wouldn't
>
> $test_data =~ s/north/N./gi;
>
> be sufficient?
And what's the output of that when somebody lives on 'South Northgate Lane'?
j.
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