Fellow monks,
I have a quandry here that is driving me to the brink.

I'm trying to evaluate a user supplied regex and when I test m/ for some reason it's not returning the $& variable.

Test code follows: 

#!/usr/bin/perl

$user_text="drab";
$regex='m/ab/';

eval "'drab' =~ $regex";
        print "User: $user_text, Reg: $regex\n";
        print "Match:$&\n";
        my $i = 1;
        my $var='$'.$i;
        print "Fine\n" if defined(eval"$var");
        while (defined(eval"$var")){
               print "Got here too...\n";
               my $found=eval"$var";
               print "Var $var is $found\n";
               $var='$'.++$i;
               }

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I've had close to a tin of Penguin mints tonight trying to debug this one. :)

I've learned quite a lot in the process ( fixed the other errors ), but unfortunately not what I needed to fix this problem.

Any ideas and/or help is greatly appreciated.

In reply to Problems evaluating a user supplied regex using eval by Popcorn Dave

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