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From:
M z
Date:
March 12, 2002 12:20
Subject:
backreference question
Message ID:
20020312201958.25897.qmail@web20903.mail.yahoo.com
Hello
I was wondering if someone could point me in the right
direction for the following regex.
s/(.{1,100}(?: |(\-))/$1$2\n/g;
Please help on the second (?: |\-)
I am trying to match either a single space ' '
or a - after 100 other characters and I want to save
the - but not the ' '
thereby $2 being undefined if ' ' is found after 100.
I'm ok with it being undefined but I'm not sure if the
above regex is valid, in fact I don't think it works
the way I want but needed to write it like that to
express what I wanted done
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