Removing the slashes is pretty easy. Here's one (non-optimal) attempt:

$input =~ s!^/(.+)/$!$1!;

With that in place, everything you've described so far, except for the $modifiers, will work. You'd either have to escape everything and wrap the whole grep in an eval block, or use some sort of checkbox or if-else block to check for a case insensitive flag.

Perl won't (as far as I know, and I'm pretty sure about this having just tested it) interpolate a variable in the regex flag position.

In reply to Re: Re: Re: How can grep search based on text or pattern based on user input? by chromatic
in thread How can grep search based on text or pattern based on user input? by Russ

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