SPUG: RegEx

[cmeyer at helvella.org]

At Fri, 7 Sep 2001 11:33:15 -0700 , "Brittingham, John" <john.brittingham at attws.com> wrote: 

>
>I am trying to replace a white space that lies between an number and a
>capital letter without changing either the number or the letter. I can't
>find any examples on this.. Can anyone tell me how to do this?
>
>example:
>6-2 Dual Mode Selection...... separating out Dual Mode Selection from 6-2

You might try something like:

$string =~ s/([0-9])\s+([A-Z])/$1$2/;

Parenthesis within a regex capture text that the containing 
subexpression matches.  These can be used withing the replacement
string, accessed as $1 $2 ... $n, with n being which parenthetical
pare, counted in the order that the opening parenthesis occur.

Have fun,
-C.

>
>Thanks jb
>

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