> /$foo/g

I expect m/$foo/ to "recompile" because it could also be m/$foo$bar/

The point of qr is that the inside of $foo=qr// is not effected.

If you don't want it to be recompiled use $str =~ $foo without surrounding m/.../

Your problem seems to arise from the /g "global" switch which is actually changing the whole m operator and not the regex.

Please note that the documentation for qr/STRING/msixpodualn doesn't list /g !

It might help to know that m// and m//g are realized as separate commands in other languages.°

update

°) e.g. in JS

Cheers Rolf
(addicted to the Perl Programming Language :)
Wikisyntax for the Monastery

In reply to Re^2: On the regex pattern variable to be inserted into another by LanX
in thread On the regex pattern variable to be inserted into another by Anonymous Monk

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