[ale] regexp question

[trobis at speakeasy.net (Taylor Robison)]

Perl Cookbook
by Tom Christiansen and Nathan Torkington
O'Reilly
See page 170.
Great book.

#!/usr/bin/perl

$_ = "One fish two fish red fish blue fish";

$WANT = 3;
$count = 0;
while (/(\w+)\s+fish\b/gi) {
if (++$count == $WANT) {
print "The third fish is a $1 one.\n";
# warning: don't 'last' out of this loop
}
}



David Hamm wrote:

> I can?t remember how to replace the nth occurrence of a character in a 
> string using a regular expression and I can?t seem to find docs that 
> will jog my memory. Could someone help me out?
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