Hi the below perl snippet will replace any three letter string in the beginning with a two letter string which is specified..but if i want to modfiy only certain characters for eg..
ABC - AB
CAB - AB
AAA - No Modifcations
1AB - AB
AB8 - AB
Whatever coming before or after of AB only have to be deleted whereas the strings may be left as it is..
Perl Snippet
use warnings;
use strict;
while (<DATA>) {
chomp;
s/ ^ [0-9a-z]{3} $ /hi/xi;
print "$_\n";
}
Thanks Guys!!!!!
Just for additional info guys how to specify spaces in the regex for eg i need to change AB B to AB how the regex to be modified .Thanks for the help guys!!!!!!