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## 1.7.3 Substituting

The match and split operators provide enough power that with some effort, it is possible to find regular expression matches, modify the matched text, and create a modified string as output. However, this is a common operation when using regular expressions for text processing, so the subst operator is also provided as a more convenient interface for the most common types of substitution.

Suppose that a list of email addresses needs to be converted from one format to another.. The following snippet does such a conversion:

    `Jason Evans (jasone@canonware.com)
    Jason O. Evans ( jasone@canonware.com )
    '

    `(\w[A-Za-z. ]*\w) \(\s*([^\s]+)\s*\)' `"\1" <\2>' <$g true> subst pop
    stdout exch write pop

This generates the following output:

    "Jason Evans" <jasone@canonware.com>
    "Jason O. Evans" <jasone@canonware.com>