regex help

[JT Moree]

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Matrix Mole wrote:
> {some text} /home/matrixm {more text} /home/matrixm {even more text}
> 
> and I want to add onto the path of the second path so that instead it
> looks like this:
> 
> {some text} /home/matrixm {more text} /home/matrixm/tmp {even more text}
> 
> I know that a switch command can do it
> (s:/home/matrixm:/home/matrixm/tmp:) but I don't know how to force regex
> to only work on the second occurrence of the pattern match.

in perl it would be done like this

s|^(.*)/home/matrixm(.*)/home/matrixm(.*)$|$1/home/matrixm$2/home/matrixm$3|


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JT Morée
PC Xperience, Inc.
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