On May 9, 10:03 am, [email protected] (Finalfire) wrote:
> Hello guys! I'm skilling regex using Perl and i've some trouble about
> a simple try:
> i've a string like:
>
> $string = "HELLOOOOAAABBCCCC";
>
> and i want to manipulate in that way: HELL4O3ABB4C;You can simply
> notice that when i have 3 or more occurrences of a character, i want
> to substitute all the occurrences and write "nC" where n is how times
> the character C is found on a string.
>
> So, in regex (i think there are so many way to do it but i wish to do
> with regex, just skilling...) i write:
>
> $string =~ s/(.)\1\1+/$1/;
>
> but how can i get the number of the occurrences in the string of that
> pattern?
>
$string =~ s{ ( # capture group
(.) # capture char.
\2 # char. again
\2+ # char. 1/more
) # end group
}
{
length($1) . $2
}gex;
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