Hmm. I agree. It really would be mad to proliferate if / else statements to deal with all the different permutations of modifiers!

Also agree with what you said earlier - eval is the way to go, but only if you don't need the dynamically scoped variables.

I wonder if future perl releases will allow variables as modifiers -

$modifier = 'i'   # or anything else
$string =~ /$regex/$modifier;
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- that would make this problem (and others like it?) a lot easier.

§ George Sherston