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Re: Regex: Case insensitive search but case sensitive replace

by Hena (Friar)
on Nov 17, 2003 at 12:09 UTC ( #307634=note: print w/replies, xml ) Need Help??


in reply to Regex: Case insensitive search but case sensitive replace

Hard, but this seems to work
$a="John is following jane";
$a=~s/(jane)/ucfirst(lc($1));/iee;
print "$a\n";

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We do evaluation on right side of the substitution. With '#' in there it didn't work (might need more figuring out).

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