[Chicago-talk] Regex question

[Scott Sexton]

You're actually going to want to use it with a ? in there:

s/Hello.*,?/$ES/g;

Otherwise it's greedy and will replace everything from Hello through the
last comma instead of the first comma.

~Scott

On Thu, Apr 28, 2011 at 9:27 AM, Richard Reina <richard at rushlogistics.com>wrote:

>
> 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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