Do you really need to stringize the entire if-statement? If you can get away with it, it's much simpler to use the stringized regex object on its own. (When a match such as  m// or  s/// is compiled, the compiler looks for terminating delimiters before interpolating scalars, so embedded '/' characters in the scalars should not be a problem.) (Also: The  =~ operator will bind to a plain old string.) 

>perl -wMstrict -le
"my $rx = qr{ foo/bar }xms;
 print 'ref: ', ref $rx;
 $rx = qq{$rx};
 print 'de-refized: ', ref $rx;
 print $rx;
 ;;
 my $str = 'xx foo/bar yy';
 print 'match'           if $str =~ $rx;
 print qq{captured '$1'} if $str =~ m/($rx)/;
"
ref: Regexp
de-refized:
(?^msx: foo/bar )
match
captured 'foo/bar'

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In reply to Re: Putting the stringified Regexp object into code by AnomalousMonk
in thread Putting the stringified Regexp object into code by sedusedan

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