Path: utzoo!attcan!uunet!dg!dg-rtp.dg.com!blurie
From: blurie@dg-rtp.dg.com (Benjamin Lurie)
Newsgroups: comp.lang.perl
Subject: Pattern Substitution Question
Keywords: pattern
Message-ID: <1086@dg.dg.com>
Date: 26 Oct 90 18:19:13 GMT
Sender: root@dg.dg.com
Reply-To: blurie@einstein.webo.dg.com
Organization: Data General Corporation, Westboro , MA
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Here's a question, whose answer I'm sure is going to be trivial, that I've
been trying to resolve for days.  Given input like the following:

	Lurie;Benjamin;1212 Nowhere Road;(617) 923-0000;(w) (000) 202-2343

I would like to translate it to:

	Benjamin Lurie;1212 Nowhere Road;(617) 923-0000;(w) (000) 202-2343

I've tried a pattern match looking for a semi-colon, but I always get the
longest pattern that matches, which would include everything up to the "(w)".

What pattern substitution would accomplish what I want here?  And, in general,
how would I specify to match only the input up to the first ocurrance of 
<c>, where <c> is some specific character?

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Benjamin Lurie		blurie@einstein.webo.dg.com

Data General
Westboro, Mass
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