I don't have have an answer, but I can give you some information to make it easier to find. You need recursive variable interpolation. The /e in your regex stands for eval. It executes the result as perl code (see taint checking if you want to start looking into security). Naturally, the evaluation of $reg2 is its contents.

You can use /ee to eval results of the first eval (as Dave suggested). In fact, I believe that you can add 'e's to recursively evaluate as many iterations as you want. For example: 

> perl -e "$string='ReplaceMe';$s1='Bug';$s2='$s1';$s3='$s2';$string=~
+s/Me/$s3/eeeg;print $string"
> ReplaceBug

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I hope this helps.

In reply to Re: Help with Regexp substitution using variables by Ardemus
in thread Help with Regexp substitution using variables by kwokna

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