Regular Expressions - Inserting space character into text string.

[alfie002]

Dear all, I should be able to sort this one out but I cannot see it at the moment. I have a string such as;

1234->5678

I want to be able to insert a white space before and after the arrowhead as follows;

1234 -> 5678

I would appreciate it if anyone could drop me a clue.

Thanks and regards.

Alf.

 

[PHV]

newstr=gsub(/->/," -> ",oldstr)

Hope This Helps, PH.
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