in reply to Can you use a scaler as an operator?

You would need to use Extended Patterns to accomplish this I think. eg.

if ( 'asdf' =~ /(?$icase)$str/ ) { print "it works!\n" }

See the perlre document for full details.

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Re^2: Can you use a scaler as an operator?
by AnomalousMonk (Archbishop) on Jan 23, 2014 at 00:12 UTC

    Rather than using a defined vs undefined value for the op variable, here's an example of that approach using  'i' vs either  '#' or  '' (empty string). 

    >perl -wMstrict -le
"my $s = 'ASdf';
 ;;
 for my $op ('i', '#', '') {
   printf qq{for op eq '$op': };
   print 'asdf' =~ m{ (?$op) \Q$s\E }xms ? '' : 'NO ', 'match';
   }
"
for op eq 'i': match
for op eq '#': NO match
for op eq '': NO match

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    Update:  '-i' also works for turning off (or not turning on) case-insensitive matching.

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Re^2: Can you use a scaler as an operator?
by jar00n (Novice) on Jan 22, 2014 at 21:28 UTC
    Very cool, I haven't stumbled across that syntax yet. Thanks
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