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That seems like it would work, however, It will still not match the pattern. The regex doesn't seem to be working correctly using the code above. And I believe you need quotes around my $regex = "qr/$string/"; Like so. Lets say you have this:
my $regex = "/[aeiou][aeiou]/";
It tries to match the literal slash then bracket and so on..., not using it as a reg. ex. at all. I think it is taking the pattern to match literally, as in it is trying to match. If you leave off the quotes and you print the string, it isn't right.

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Re: Re: Re: Regular Expression Question
by perlguy (Deacon) on Apr 04, 2003 at 15:24 UTC

    qr// is its own operator, and will not work with double quotes around it. If your regex variable ($string, in this case) that you will be pre-compiling has slashes in it, then of course it will try to match the slashes. It is assumed that the only thing inside the qr// operator is the regular expression itself. The previous posts before mine didn't contain slashes in their variable, either.

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      Thank you perlguy for all your help!! I got it to work now. And again, thanks for the prompt attention!
      P0werz
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