Andrew wrote: > I am tying to expand some camel case with spaces - but I want multiple > captitals to remain as one word. So > I want "PerlNotesOnXML" -> "Perl Notes On XML" > > My attempt is to use [A-Z]+ in a lookahead. > > my $text = "PerlNotesOnXML" ; > $text =~ s/(?=[A-Z]+)/ /gx ; > print $text ; > > I think I can see what is happening - [A-Z]+ matches XML then ML then L. > Is there a way of preventing it looking XML more than once.
I suggest $text =~ s/([^A-Z\s])([A-Z])/$1 $2/g; which finds an upper case character which is preceded by a character which is neither upper case nor whitespace and puts a space between them. HTH, Rob -- To unsubscribe, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] For additional commands, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://learn.perl.org/
