On Jun 17, Lonya said:
>Say I have a line like this:
>This *s a te*t, this *s only a te*t.
>
>And I'd like to replace "te*t," with "test," after a dictionary lookup.
>Well, I can split out the punctuation easily enough, but I don't know
>how to join it back in later.
You probably want to use a regex, instead of split().
$string =~ s/([\w*]+)/replace($1)/eg;
where replace() is your function for changing "te*t" into "test" or
"text" or "tent", etc.
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