Craig A. Berry wrote: > a regex inside of a regex is still unsupported IIRC, code similar to the following is somewhere in the documentation. (but maybe including the e-modifier doesn't apply to the above?) perl -wle' my $s = "abc 123232323 def"; $s =~ s/([0-9]+)/ (my $t = $1) =~ s!.!*!g; $t /e; print $s; ' abc ********* def -- RuudThread Previous | Thread Next