> There are no arrow operators in strings,

That's wrong! Variable interpolation does easily dereference hashes and arrays (i.e. within strings and substitutes). 

  DB<114> $h={a=>42}
 => { a => 42 }

  DB<115> "$h->{a}"
 => 42

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Though coderefs seem to be excluded. 

  DB<118> $sub=sub { "nope" }
 => sub { "???" }

  DB<119> "$sub->()"
 => "CODE(0xa5cc200)->()"

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But the @{[...]} ("local eval") trick always helps where a general /e would cause too much harm.

  DB<120> $_="X"
 => "X"

  DB<121> s/X/@{[ $sub->() ]}/
 => 1

  DB<122> $_
 => "nope"

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see also: s/RegEx/substitutions/: Variable interpolation and when to use /e - modifiers

Cheers Rolf

( addicted to the Perl Programming Language)

In reply to Re^2: Perl ignore arrow object operator in search/replace (s/searchregex/replacestring/) by LanX
in thread Perl ignore arrow object operator in search/replace by fouinix

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