in reply to how do I use s///e

s///e is great when you're playing around with Filter::Simple:
package Filter::ISA; use strict; use warnings; use Filter::Simple; FILTER_ONLY code => sub { s/package\s+(\w+?)\s+isa\s+(.+?);/"package $1; use base qw( " . join +(" ", split(",", $2)) . " );"/eg; }; 1;
Usage:
use Filter::ISA; package derived isa base1, base2;