That's not true. Without use re 'eval', it won't execute Perl code.

my $input = '(?{ print("Hello World!\\n") })'; print(qq{Without "use re 'eval';":\n}); eval { '' =~ /$input/; }; warn($@) if $@; print("\n"); print(qq{With "use re 'eval';":\n}); eval { use re 'eval'; '' =~ /$input/; }; warn("Died: $@") if $@;

outputs

Without "use re 'eval';": Died: Eval-group not allowed at runtime, use re 'eval' in regex m/(?{ +print("Hello World!\n") })/. With "use re 'eval';": Hello World!

On the other hand, some regexps take forever to execute. Some might even crash perl.


In reply to Re^3: matching a regular expression by ikegami
in thread matching a regular expression by s_gaurav1091

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