I re-wrote that line, trying to make that swap at a different place in the code, here is what I found:
print "$retVal\n";
print "Success!\n" if $retVal=~s/showpos=1/showpos=$main::pageVar1/;
print "$retVal\n";
print "$main::pageVar\n";

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returns this:
catCount=0&prodCount=36&show=prod&showpos=1&searchtxt=chip ... (The rest is irrelevant)
Success!
catCount=0&prodCount=36&show=prod&showpos=&searchtxt=chip
1

What I want to see here is the section "showpos=" to contain the value of $main::pageVar next to a number one.

Regards,
spectre

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In reply to RE: Re: Regex Interpolation by spectre
in thread Regex Interpolation by spectre

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