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Sent: 11/15/2001 12:05 PM
Subject: RE: Regulare Expressions/ Substitution Question
> -Original Message-
> From: Gibbs Tanton - tgibbs [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]]
> Sent: Thursday, November 15, 2001 12:08 PM
> To: 'Miretsky, Anya '; ''[EMAIL PROTECTE
> -Original Message-
> From: Miretsky, Anya [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]]
> Sent: Thursday, November 15, 2001 11:57 AM
> To: 'Bob Showalter'
> Subject: RE: Regulare Expressions/ Substitution Question
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> I don't understand why but if I write the sub
> -Original Message-
> From: Gibbs Tanton - tgibbs [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]]
> Sent: Thursday, November 15, 2001 12:08 PM
> To: 'Miretsky, Anya '; ''[EMAIL PROTECTED]' '
> Subject: RE: Regulare Expressions/ Substitution Question
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>
What you want is a negative lookahead
$iter =~ s/\b$varS(?!\.)/St./gi;
That says to find any occurrence of $varS that is preceeded by a word
boundry (so you don't replace things like worst) and is NOT followed by a .
Tanton
-Original Message-
From: Miretsky, Anya
To: '[EMAIL PROTECTED]
--On Donnerstag, 15. November 2001 11:37 -0500 "Miretsky, Anya"
<[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> I am trying to replace all occurences of the word St with St. without
> generating St.. in the incorrect substitutions of St.
>
> The code I have been playing with is something like:
>
> $item = "35 Main
> -Original Message-
> From: Miretsky, Anya [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]]
> Sent: Thursday, November 15, 2001 11:37 AM
> To: '[EMAIL PROTECTED]'
> Subject: Regulare Expressions/ Substitution Question
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> I am trying to replace all occurences of the word St with St. without
> generating St
