You gotta have a canned solution for ignorant newbees and impatient veterans

Its not like it takes long to DIY-up a little safety, I typed up the above in preview box, now tested, with own Turpolate

use String::Interpolate::RE qw( strinterp ); print Substitution("BellyAche\n", '([a-z])([A-Z])', '$1 $2', ''); print Substitution("BellyAche\n", '([a-z])([A-Z])', '$1 $2', 'g'); sub Substitution { my( $in, $re, $rep, $flags ) = @_; my $global = $flags =~ m{g}i; my $qrFlags = join '', $flags =~ m{([msixpodualn])}i; $qrFlags = "(?$qrFlags)"; $re = qr{$qrFlags$re}; if( $global ){ $in =~ s{$re}{ Replace($rep, \%+,{1=>$1,2=>$2,3=>$3}); }gex; } else { $in =~ s{$re}{ my $vars = { %+, 1=>$1, 2=>$2, 3=>$3, }; Turpolate( $rep, $vars ); }ex; } return $in; } sub Turpolate { my( $str, $vars ) = @_; $str =~ s{\$(\w+)}{ exists $vars->{$1} ? $vars->{$1} : '$'.$1 }gex; return $str; } sub Replace { my( $rep, $named, $numed ) = @_; my $vars = { %$named, %$numed, 'bananas','bananas' }; return strinterp( $rep, $vars ); } __END__ Belly Ache Belly Ache

In reply to Re^4: Passing a regex from a CGI HTML form (user supplied regex substitution without eval) by Anonymous Monk
in thread Passing a regex from a CGI HTML form by Linicks

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