I don't know how to check that but doesn't that stringify then recompile the precompiled regexes?

Hm, that's a good question, I'm not sure at the moment how to check either... hopefully inspiration will strike later :-)

Your and jwkrahn's posts did remind me of a possibly important caveat: (??{...}) will re-execute the block of code every time, while interpolation will only execute it once:

use warnings;
use strict;
#use re 'debug';

my $str = "foobar";

sub getit {
    print "Getit! pos=",pos($str)//"undef","\n";
    return qr/[aeiou]/i;
}

print "### haukex\n";
print "Matches: <", $str=~/(??{getit})/g, ">\n";

print "### jwkrahn\n";
my $reg_str = getit();
print "Matches: <", $str=~/$reg_str/g,    ">\n";

print "### Eily\n";
print "Matches: <", $str=~/@{[getit]}/g,  ">\n";

__END__

### haukex
Getit! pos=0
Getit! pos=1
Getit! pos=2
Getit! pos=3
Getit! pos=4
Getit! pos=5
Getit! pos=6
Matches: <ooa>
### jwkrahn
Getit! pos=undef
Matches: <ooa>
### Eily
Getit! pos=undef
Matches: <ooa>

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In reply to Re^3: Subroutine Reference in a Regexp? by haukex
in thread Subroutine Reference in a Regexp? by Amblikai

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