[Chicago-talk] Regex question

Andy Lester andy at petdance.com
Sat Mar 19 07:57:39 PST 2005


> Is there a way to tell a regex to only search & replace between a 
> certain match?  Is there a name for this function that I may read 
> about?

Yes, look for the "flip-flop" operator, where it's roughly

if ( /regex1/../regex2/ ) {
	  # do something
}

It's taken directly from Awk.

xao

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