String Parsing Help Needed

[billyb]

Hi I wonder if you can help?

I want to replace the first two letters of a word with another. For example

America
would become

BBerica

I know this is a easy one but help great.

 

[raider2001]

The following will work.

$string = s/^\w{2}/BB/;

The 's' is the substitution operator.
The syntax for this operator is:
s/match/replace/

So for the match we have:
The '^' is to match the beginning of the string.
The '\w{2}' is to match exactly 2 word characters.

This match is replaced with 'BB'.

Hope this helps.

 

[billyb]

Thanks for the Help