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Hi, Ive been breaking down my string with regex and havnt been doing
to bad for a begginer. However Im struggling now. Examole string = '10
04 thismaybemissing 10 rob 1 2 3 robagain 3 74 * 70 4 2' This is
normally how the string turns out. Now and again the
'thismaybemissing' is missing giving me '10 04 10 rob 1 2 3 robagain 3
74 * 70 4 2'. So now I want to insert a word after the second space in
the string, when I try using regex I end up inserting words between
the spaces between all the numbers understandably as Im usinf /d/s/d.
Is there a way to say 'after second space insert....
Regards Robert
Jan 23 '08 #1
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