--- In perl-beginner@yahoogroups.com, merlyn ...
wrote:
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> >>>>> "hooyar66" == hooyar66
<pcbcad...> writes:
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> hooyar66> I want to be able prefix all non-words
EXCEPT SPACES with
a backslash.
>
> you mean non-word-characters?
>
> so the set of W without space?
>
> That'd be [^w ], so s/([^w ])/\$1/g
>
> Pretty simple, once you understand set arithmetic. 
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Thanks Randal that's perfect, yes I should have stated
"non-word-
characters".
The caret ^ used to negate instead of as a 'beginning'
marker
confused me for a while, had to RTFM 
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