[Chicago-talk] Regex question

[David Young]

Richard,

$_ =~ s/Hello.*,/$ES/g

should do the trick.  To learn and/or test goto regextester.com.  Here is
your example:

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ydy


On Thu, Apr 28, 2011 at 7:34 AM, Richard Reina <richard at rushlogistics.com>wrote:

> I have the code below that replaces the string "Hello," with a scalar $ES
> which consists of "Hello " . $persons_first_name ",";  It works fine.
>  However, what I can't figure out is how to make it also substitute a string
> that already has a first name after hello.  For example, if finds Hello Kim,
> I want it to replace it with $ES.  Sorry for my ignorance.  Any help would
> be greatly appreciated.
>
> Thanks,
>
> Richard
>
> sub change_salutation {
>
> my ($ES) = @_;
>
> @ARGV = qw(L_FILE);
>
> $^I="";
>
> while (<>) {
>
>   $_ =~ s/Hello,/$ES/g;
>   $print $_;
>
> }
>
> } # end of sub
>
>
> }
>
>
> }
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