[Chicago-talk] Regex question

[Kent Cowgill]

 Or perhaps,

 $_ =~ s/Hello(?:\s\w+)?,/$ES/g;

 So it optionally includes a space followed by a word, and doesn't 
 bother to capture the grouping.

 On Thu, 28 Apr 2011 08:05:27 -0500, Mike Raffety 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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