Once again, can anyone post this to StackOverflow? El jue., 3 may. 2018 a las 16:50, Fernando Santagata (< nando.santag...@gmail.com>) escribió:
> Hi Todd, > > I tried to match a single string to begin with: > > my $x = '"7" ab"'; > $x ~~ s:g/ (.) \" <!before \, || $> /inches($0)/; > say $x; > > # "inches(7) ab" > > On Thu, May 3, 2018 at 12:11 PM Todd Chester <toddandma...@zoho.com> > wrote: > >> Hi All, >> >> What I am trying to do is to replace a quote `"` >> with `inches`, but NOT when the quote is followed >> by a comma `,`. >> >> In other words, ignore `",` >> >> I am not having too good a time with it. What am I >> doing wrong? >> >> $ perl6 -e 'my $x=qw["44","7" ab","","999"]; say >> "$x";$x~~s:g/\"(.)<-[,]>/ inches($0)/; say "$x";' >> >> "44","7" ab","","999" >> inches(4)inches(,)7inches( )binches(,)inches(,)999" >> >> desired output: >> "44","7 inches ab","","999" >> >> Many thanks, >> -T >> >> next step, ignoring the quote at the end of the line. >> > > > -- > Fernando Santagata > -- JJ