Well for a start im looking at substitutions not matches.

Now if I pass the substitution from a variable I have to go and escape a whole bunch of thing OR make the user do it when they set the regex (which doesnt make me happy at all).

for example 

 
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#!/usr/bin/perl

$user=".admin.ecc";
$uregex="~s/^\\.(\.*)?\\.\.*/\$1/";

#$user =~ s/^\.(.*)?\..*/$1/;
$regstring="\$user=$uregex";

print "$regstring\n";
eval($regstring);

print "User: $user\n";
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The regex to process my username is s/^\.(.*)?\..*/$1/ but in order to get it working with eval it needs to be changed to this s/^\\.(\.*)?\\.\.*/\$1/ which is not the most usefull thing in the world so what im looking for is some means to parse a regex string, if it comes down to it i'll use a whole bunch of regex for it but id rather not if i can help it.

In reply to Re^2: User configurable regex by MiggyMan
in thread User configurable regex by MiggyMan

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