tachyon wrote:
there are many ways to tackle the problem and this way has dubious value IMHO

You will have an easy time convincing me of this. As I continue to muddle around with this, my current approach does have the feel of a mis-guided solution strategy. Problem is, this is the only entry door I can see at present and once I get in the room it seems to be full of only less-than-desirable options.

So let me back off a bit and state the problem in a more general way.

Given:
  $str (some arbitrary string)
  $pat (a string to be used as a regex pattern)
  $repl (a string to be used as a regex RHS and
        which may contain $1, $2...)

Can I / How can I perform the indicated regex substitution on $str?

At this point in this project I *do* have control over the inputs and even the 'API' for the code that calls this routine. But I am hard put to imagine another way of specifying and requesting this kind of functionality.

But try me... I'm open to suggestions. I would dearly love to find an elegant way of doing this.

In reply to Re: Re: Re: $1 in variable regex replacement string by dvergin
in thread $1 in variable regex replacement string by dvergin

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