s...@missionstclare.com wrote:
I'm running PERL under the MACOSX.
It is spelled Perl, not PERL. :-)
The line $text=~s/george/tim/; causes a global substituion of "george" with "tim" How can I limit the substituion to the first instance only?
Global substitution only works if you use the /g option but your example does not use the /g option so it will only replace the first 'george' it finds.
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