[Chicago-talk] Regex question

[Scott Sexton]

Oops yeah typo. I mean ? before the ,

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


On Thu, Apr 28, 2011 at 11:51 AM, Scott Sexton <scott.sexton at gmail.com>wrote:

> 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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