Constants in regexes.

BrowserUk has asked for the wisdom of the Perl Monks concerning the following question:

Is there anyway to use a use constant MYCHAR => 'X'; defined constant within a regex?

Eg. $string =~ s/MYCHAR/$someotherchar/g;

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Re: Constants in regexes. by broquaint (Abbot) on Nov 29, 2002 at 10:47 UTC
Is there anyway to use a use constant MYCHAR => 'X'; defined constant within a regex? Since it's just an interpolated string there's no 'simple' way of doing it ,but ... `use constant FOO => "abc"; my $str = "abcdefg"; $str =~ s<${\FOO}>(\U$&); print $str,$/; __output__ ABCdefg` [download] HTH `_________ broquaint`	[reply] [d/l]