2009/12/20 sftriman <dal...@gmail.com>:
> I've been wondering for a long time... is there a slick (and hopefully
> fast!) way
> to do this?
>
> foreach (keys %fixhash) {
> $x=~s/\b$_\b/$fixhash{$_}/gi;
> }
You can do a global substitute of the sentence and see if they match
any key in the hash. i.e.:
$x =~ s/\b([A-Za-z]+)\b/$fixhash{$1} || $fixhash{uc($1)} || $1/egi;
Which, in some circles, might be considered slick. As to fast, well,
this *is* Perl.
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