[Chicago-talk] Regex question

[Richard Reina]

This worked great.

Thanks!


---- Chicago.pm chatter <chicago-talk at pm.org> wrote:
>
> Change the "Hello," to "Hello.*,", so it includes any characters between 
> the salutation and the comma.
> 
> Richard Reina wrote, On 4/28/2011 7:34 AM:
> > 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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