A positive look ahead : Anchors « Regular Expression « Perl






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A positive look ahead

    

$string="I love chocolate.";
$string =~ s/chocolate(?= ice)/vanilla/;
print "$string\n";

$string="this is a test.";
$string =~ s/this(?=is)/test/g;
print "$string\n";








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