in reply to Extracting regex from string

Please edit your post to correct code-tags. Additionally 'hello world add' doesn't make sense.

Please see How do I post a question effectively?

The better the question the better the answers!

I need to guess what you really want:

my $input = "good morning all"; my $pattern = qr/good morning (\w+)/; my $replace = '"hello $1"'; my $output = $input =~ s/$pattern/$replace/ree; print $output;

hello all

Please be sure to have full control of the $replace strings since the eval /ee would lead to security issues.

Cheers Rolf
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