Hi, for the mongodb driver, it seems i have to use the qr// format of regular expressions. from the documentation, : 
Use qr/.../ to use a regular expression in a query .....
my $cursor = $collection->query({"name" => qr/[Jj]oh?n/});

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The problem is that i have to create the query by reading existing mongo regex strings, e.g. 
{"name" => '/.*uba$/i'}

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i tried changing this through basic string manipulation to prepend the qr : 
{"name" => 'qr/.*uba$/i'}

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but i think it's just treating that as a string for full matching instead of applying it is a regex. it's certainly not working.

i also tried (after prepending the qr) passing it to a function and creating a qr object: 
if(index($_[0],"qr/") >= 0){ 
                $_[0] =~s/qr(.*?)(i?)$/$1/s;
                print $fh Dumper($_[0]);
                if($2=='i'){
                    my $re = qr/$_[0]/i;
                }else{
                    my $re = qr/$_[0]/;
                }
                $_[0] =$re;
                print $fh Dumper($_[0]);
            }

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but that outputs: 
$VAR1 = '/.*uba$/';
$VAR1 = undef;

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I'm very new to perl, so it's very possible that i'm missing something obvious. any ideas?

In reply to creating qr from existing regex by Bobert1234

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