Well, I tried eval because something was already broken. I've removed it now, and have no need for it. I just want my variable to work inside the regular expression. How do I properly quote it, and/or invoke the substitution, so that it will work? I thought this would be easy, but it just did not work as expected. I think the qr// is adding something, because the expression it resolves to is not identical to what I have assigned my variable. But if I use qw// or just q//, those don't seem any better. I just want to drop in a piece of code which looks exactly as I have assigned it to the variable, and, as it happens, I do not need to eval any variables inside my short block of code as there won't be any. So, while simple is the order of the day, it has turned out to be not so simple.

Blessings,

~Polyglot~

In reply to Re^4: Repeated code blocks in long and hairy regex by Polyglot
in thread Repeated code blocks in long and hairy regex by Polyglot

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