Hi there. I'm new to perl and this problem is *kIlLiNg* me! I'm eager to learn perl though, so any help would be much appreciated! I want to pass the LHS and RHS of an s/// expression in to a subroutine along these lines: 
# foo(text, regexp, replacement)
#       print text with replacements
sub foo {
    my $text;
    ($text = $_[0]) =~ s/$_[1]/$_[2]/;
    print $text;
}
foo("This is test 1\n", "test (.*)", "fish $1");

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With the intention of replaceing "test n" with "fish n" using backreferncing. But can I get it to work!? I've tried replacing it with "fish $1", "fish \$1", "fish \\$1" and even "fish \\\$1"! Sadly nothing yields the result I'm after. Could anyone explain why, and how I should do what I'm trying to do?

In reply to How do I pass $1 to s///? by Anonymous Monk

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