need help on pattern substitution

[Yulong Zhou]

I have a question about pattern substitution!

if I have a string like the following!

Helloabcdehello12345HeLLO

I want change it to

<b>Hello<b/>abcde<b>hello<b/>12345<b>HeLLO<b/>

is there a way in perl to do this,the important thing here, is the case
there are upper and lower case.

thanx for your help
I am new in perl!
yul...@ace.rutgers.edu

[Tad McClellan]

Yulong Zhou (yul...@ace.rutgers.edu) wrote:

: if I have a string like the following!

: Helloabcdehello12345HeLLO

: I want change it to

: <b>Hello<b/>abcde<b>hello<b/>12345<b>HeLLO<b/>

^^^^
</b> is what you meant to say, right?

: is there a way in perl to do this,the important thing here, is the case

: there are upper and lower case.

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#!/usr/bin/perl -w

$_ = 'Helloabcdehello12345HeLLO';

s#(hello)#<b>$1</b>#ig;

#s#\b(hello)\b#<b>$1</b>#ig; alternative to not match embedded 'hello'

print "$_\n";
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