Re: interpolating code in regex brace quantifier

Sure, you can interpolate there.

my $num_zeds = "13";
/z{$num_zeds}/
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But you don't want interpolation. You want something like the following:

/(a+)(??{ 'x{'.length($1).'}' })/
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Re^2: interpolating code in regex brace quantifier by grobber (Novice) on Mar 08, 2019 at 23:25 UTC
This does it, thank you! And yes, I misspoke: it wasn't quite "interpolation" I was after..	[reply]
Re^3: interpolating code in regex brace quantifier by ikegami (Patriarch) on Mar 09, 2019 at 22:18 UTC
Note that you can also achieve the desired result through recursion `(a(?1)?x)` [download]	[reply] [d/l]