/e is your friend but don't get too friendly:

#!/bin/perl -w  
use strict;

my $string="hello
<tag>
code
goes
here
</tag>
";

$string=~ s{(<tag>.*?</tag>)}{replace( $1)}egs;
print $string;

sub replace 
  { my $text_in_tag= shift;
    $text_in_tag=~ s{\n}{<br />}g;
    return $text_in_tag;
  }

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The e modifier means that the replacement expression is eval-ed instead of being treated as a string. Hence $1 is replaced by replace( $1)

You can also use the old function-in-a-string trick:

$string=~ s{(<tag>.*?</tag>)}{@{[replace( $1)]}}gs;

In reply to Re: Editting Part of Regex by mirod
in thread Editting Part of Regex by mt2k

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