At 16:08 96-03-14, Peter Folk wrote:
>I need to do a search and replace, replacing on a function of one of the
>matched regexps... Eg:
>
>s/^([^:]*)/${$1+4}/;
>
>to change "84:thingies" to "88:thingies". Anybody got any ideas?
Use the 'e' modifier and drop the leading $ in the replacement:
s/^([^:]*)/ $1 + 4 /e;
--Hal
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