A fun way to accomplish this is with DynScalar from our very own japhy. 
use DynScalar;
my $filter        = "user (.*) has (logged on)";
my $output_string = dynamic { "user $1 has accessed the system and is 
+$2\n" };
my $log_string    = "user bob has logged on";

if ($log_string =~ /$filter/) {
    print $output_string;
}

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I don't know about using this in production code, where someone else has to maintain it. But it's a lot of fun, especially since I was just looking at this module the other day.. And really this is mostly syntactic sugar for chromatic's suggestion, which uses the same concept.

blokhead

In reply to Re: How can I use $1 in an assigned string by blokhead
in thread How can I use $1 in an assigned string by kitsonrp

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