What Im trying to do is allow a user to specify a regex through form submission, then have the regex run on a piece of data.

In terms of processing the regex I've tried the following with now luck 
my $str = "Hello my name is Kevin";
my $regex = $form->query(...);
#Value of regex : "/Hello\smy\name\sis\s(\w.*)/"

$str =~ $regex;

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I've also tried the string statement as the following 
$str =~ /$regex/; #where omitting / in $regex
eval($str =~ /$regex/);
eval($str =~ $regex);

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Not one of the above returns a value for $1 Any ideas, the regex works fine on its own when used in a traditional method

In reply to Regex from a string by Anonymous Monk

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