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using regular expressions to extract "adjacent" substrings
Suppose I have strings of the form: xxxxxxxxxxZYYYxxxxxx where x can be any character, Z is some specific character, and Y is a certain character type (i.e. digits) of arbitrarily length. I want to exploit the fact that substring Y...Y always appears after Z, and write a regular expression that... -
Regular Expression Question (insertion/substitution)
Basically, I am trying to construct a substitute expression that accomplishes the following: given all occurrences of a certain type of string (for instance, digits), insert some prefix or suffix before or after all occurences. For example, in the string --12***345)))6789?<>, I want to insert...
