On Wed, Nov 15, 2000 at 07:24:00PM +0000, fergal daly wrote: > perl -pe '$i=1;s/,/$i++=~m#^4|5|6$#?"":","/ge' ^^^^^^^^^^ I'm sure you meant: > perl -pe '$i=1;s/,/$i++=~m#^(4|5|6)$#?"":","/ge' Otherwise, 43 (/^4/), 157 (/5/), or 26 (/6$/) would also match. David Henderson -- For the latest news about Star Trek and Buffy books, visit Psi Phi! Star Trek Books: http://www.psiphi.org/cgi/upc-db/ <*> Buffy TVS Books: http://www.psiphi.org/cgi/buffy-db/ ==== Want to unsubscribe from Fun With Perl? Well, if you insist... ==== Send email to <fwp-request@technofile.org> with message _body_ ==== unsubscribe