Re: Substitutions in matched patterns?

>> what is the easiest way to do substitutions in matched strings.
>> For example I want to do s/ABC/DEF/g , but only if the ABC is between
>> braces.
> s/{ABC}/{DEF}/g;

ABC is not directly between braces. It's more something like

s/({.*)ABC(.*})/\1DEF\2/g

but as it get's more complicating (more different substitutions), one needs
another solution.

Anton

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