[Chicago-talk] Regex question

[Richard Reina]

   Good to know. Thanks, I will add the ?.
>  
>  Chicago.pm chatter <chicago-talk at pm.org> wrote:  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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