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"Frode Tenneboe" <ft@alne.edh.ericsson.se> wrote in message
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> However, sometimes I miss the expressionness of perl:
>
> s/([^;]*;ME001=)([^;]*)(;[^;]*)/$1$callsign$3/;
>
> ;-)

Why does this remind me of APL?