[sf-perl] double filter (but short)

[Vicki Brown]

I have a text file, with lines like this:

  carrot: backwards
  banana: ran
  apple: sentences

I am using a very short, sweet bit of Perl to reverse the lines

     perl -e 'print reverse <>'

resulting in

  apple: sentences
  banana: ran
  carrot: backwards

I also want to convert the part before each initial colon, so the result is

  _apple_: sentences
  _banana_: ran
  _carrot_: backwards

I can do this with

      perl -e 'print reverse <>' |
         sed 's/^\([^:]*\):/_\1_:/'

or with all Perl

      perl -e  'print reverse <>'  |
         perl -pe  's/^([^:]*):/_$1_:/'

but I haven't been able to come up with a tidy way to combine the two
filters into one call to perl. (s//)(reverse) or (reverse)(s//).

Possible?
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