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in thread Converting RegExs.

And, of course, you can compile the regex that they entered using qr//. You should run that in an eval and if it fails then you know that they've entered and invalid regex and you can go back and ask for a better one.

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RE (tilly) 5: Converting RegExs.
by tilly (Archbishop) on Sep 04, 2000 at 18:40 UTC
    And when they wonder why /5/ doesn't match 5? 
    perl -e '$in = "/5/"; $m = qr/$in/; print 1 if 5 =~ $m'

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