OK, I changed tact and looked for a way to use $var's in the substition. I found a post on stackoverflow that works 'perfectly' for my precise requirements.

On the HTML form, have two 'input type="text"' boxes. One is for the text to find, the second is for the text to replace.

The perl code is as follows:

   if ($request{'find'} && $request{'replace'}) {
       $find=$request{'find'};
       $reptemp=$request{'replace'};
       $replace='$reptemp';
       $line =~ s/$find/$replace/ee;
   }

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Bingo, all works great, and no "Danger, Will Robinson" type stuff :)

Nick

In reply to Re: Passing a regex from a CGI HTML form [SOLVED] by Linicks
in thread Passing a regex from a CGI HTML form by Linicks

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